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I Am Cuba: A Lost Classic Found (Again)
I Am Cuba, an ambitious, and at times surreal portrait of the country created in 1964 by a team of visiting Soviet filmmakers, was audacious, visually dazzling, and completely forgotten for 30 years. Now a deluxe three-DVD set lovingly resurrects this milestone for home video.
By Phil Nugent
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Willie Colón Weighs In On El Cantante
Willie Colón sounds off on the recent El Cantante biopic about his friend Hector Lavoe.
By Willie Colón
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The Latest From Patrice Leconte & Pascale Ferran
In Patrice Leconte’s new comedy My Best Friend, Daniel Auteuil plays François, an elegantly self-assured antiques dealer who is, beneath his sophisticated exterior, a buffoon, and he pours all that quiet intensity into the character’s cluelessness.
By Phil Nugent
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Milarepa
The small yet well-appointed theater at National Geographic was sold out days in advance of the US Premiere of Milarepa. Certainly, the globe-trekking efforts of the Dalai Lama have brought Tibetan Buddhism to popular attention, but the appeal of this film is transcendent, its theme universal.
By Eve M. Ferguson
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Screamers
Carla Garapedian’s Screamers stars the prog-metal band System Of A Down and features plenty of performance footage of the group, but it’s not a concert movie; it’s a treatise on the international history of genocide.
By Phil Nugent
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Woman Is the Future Of Man
Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s Woman Is the Future Of Man shimmers like a clear lake on a sunny day, and is almost as motionless and quiet.
By Phil Nugent
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Rescue Dawn
Rescue Dawn is German director Werner Herzog’s first nondocumentary feature in five years. The movie is based on the story of Dieter Dengler, a German-born U.S. citizen and Navy pilot who was shot down over Laos in the mid-’60s.
By Phil Nugent
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Gypsy Caravan - A Trip Beyond the Beaten Path
Jasmine Dellal’s “Gypsy Caravan” certainly takes the less beaten path to tell the intimate stories behind the World Music Institute tour that brought together five Gypsy musical groups.
By Eve M. Ferguson
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18 Directors Go To Paris
The anthology film Paris, Je T’aime offers 18 takes on the subject of love in the city of lights, from the Coen brothers, Alexander Payne, Sylvain Chomet, and others.
By Phil Nugent
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Academic Intrigue At A French University
The French film Poison Friends, directed by Emmanuel Bordieu from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marcia Romano, has the virtue of having an unusual subject.
By Phil Nugent
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