http://www.Globalrhythm.net/Film/ Film on Globalrhythm.net en-us Copyright 2013, Globalrhythm.net. All Rights Reserved info@ecomsolutions.net info@ecomsolutions.net http://globalrhythm.net/Film/TuyasMarriage.cfm Shot against the bleak backdrop of Inner Mongolia, director Wang Quan’an’s short but richly detailed film shows a stark contrast to the gritty, urban life of Beijing. The story centers on Tuya Yu Nan and Bater Bater, a couple who are scratching out an existence with two young children while living on the unforgiving plains bordering Siberia. http://globalrhythm.net/Film/BloodBrothers.cfm Director Alexi Tan and famed director-turned-producer John Woo take advantage of the liberal standards of Hong Kong which adhere to a distinctly looser version of the Chinese rating system and the facilities of Taiwan to make a gangster tale of three country boys who venture out from an idyllic small town in China’s Shanghai province to take on the big city. Eve M. Ferguson http://globalrhythm.net/Film/LostInBeijing.cfm Director Li Yu’s third feature has raised the most controversy recently, second only to Ang Lee’s tale of subterfuge and betrayal, Lust, Caution . With strict codes determining the rating system used by China’s Film Bureau, the film that tells an unwelcome story of life in Beijing was effectively killed due to the depiction of prostitution, rape, graphic sex and blackmail. Eve M. Ferguson http://globalrhythm.net/Film/NoSerDiosYCuidarlos.cfm No Ser Dios Y Cuidarlos delves into the one-of-a-kind experience provided by Buenos Aires’ Centro Universitario Devoto CUD—an educational program founded more than 20 years ago by the University Of Buenos Aires UBA, and operating within the walls of Argentina’s infamous Villa Devoto maximum-security penitentiary. Diego Zerpa Chang http://globalrhythm.net/Film/Leonera.cfm Fresh from its widespread acclaim at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the latest film from director Pablo Trapero portrays the lives of ordinary people with a critical eye toward modern Argentine society. Diego Zerpa Chang http://globalrhythm.net/Film/ChantingDownBabylon.cfm He might be just over five feet tall, but producer, singer and roots messenger Lee “Scratch” Perry casts a profoundly huge shadow over Jamaican music and culture. For that reason alone, it’s amazing to consider how long fans have been waiting for a film like The Upsetter to come around. Douglas Heselgrave http://globalrhythm.net/Film/OneToOneDiplomacy.cfm Eran Kolirin’s debut film The Band’s Visit has enjoyed widespread appeal, irrespective of whether one keeps up with the latest developments in Arab-Israeli relations. New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox’s 2004 film Walk On Water , released on DVD in 2005 and worth revisiting here, shows a different side of Israeli relations as they unfold both within the country and beyond its borders. Eve M. Ferguson http://globalrhythm.net/Film/AClashOfIdeas.cfm The Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days will make you mighty glad to live in a time and place where woman have abortion rights, while Julien Temple s documentary The Future Is Unwritten might just make you feel a little better about not being Joe Strummer. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/ASowbizBiopicAndAnAgitpropDrama.cfm Phil Nugent looks at La Vie En Rose , a cinematic biography of the legendary and legendarily troubled French singer Edith Piaf. He also subjects himself to the agitprop African docudrama Bamako. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/RememberingOusmaneSembene.cfm For 40 years, the late Ousmane Sembene was the pride of African Cinema. His last film, Moolaade , took on the harrowing subject of female genital mutilation—a poignant statement reflective of the director s amazing career. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/IAmCubaALostClassicFoundAgain.cfm 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. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/WillieColnWeighsInOnElCantante.cfm Willie Colón sounds off on the recent El Cantante biopic about his friend Hector Lavoe. Willie Colón http://globalrhythm.net/Film/TheLatestFromPatriceLeconteampPascaleFerran.cfm 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. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/Milarepa.cfm 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. Eve M. Ferguson http://globalrhythm.net/Film/Screamers.cfm 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. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/WomanIstheFutureOfMan.cfm 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. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/RescueDawn.cfm 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. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/GypsyCaravanATripBeyondtheBeatenPath.cfm 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. Eve M. Ferguson http://globalrhythm.net/Film/18DirectorsGoToParis.cfm 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. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/AcademicIntrigueAtAFrenchUniversity.cfm 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. Phil Nugent http://globalrhythm.net/Film/BalzacandtheLittleChineseSeamstress.cfm Co-produced in China and France, the movie version of Sijie Dai s Balzac And The Little Chinese Empress was released in 2002, and again found wide success. Carol Amoruso http://globalrhythm.net/Film/Maestro.cfm Maestro, directed by Cuban-born/New York-raised director Josell Ramos, takes a look at the formative days of dance music culture in New York City, when it was still underground, and still largely a black, Latino and gay phenomenon. Tom Pryor http://globalrhythm.net/Film/ShortCutToNirvana.cfm “The entire game of liberation or bondage is enacted on the stage of the mind,” wrote Tantra scholar Georg Feuerstein. If the travelers to Kumbh Mela had any mantra in mind, this would be fitting. By Derek Beres http://globalrhythm.net/Film/RecordSettingEgyptianFilmStirsDebateandControversy.cfm Depicting such taboos as homosexuality, police brutality, corruption and terrorism, The Yacoubian Building has stirred mixed reactions among theater audiences used to viewing heavily censored material. http://globalrhythm.net/Film/MusicaCubana.cfm Musica Cubana by Argentine director German Kral, has been touted as the sequel to Wim Wenders’ 1998 masterpiece of documentary filmmaking, The Buena Vista Social Club . Eve M. Ferguson http://globalrhythm.net/Film/TheMotorcycleDiaries.cfm Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries is baffling because it refuses to be political despite the fact that its protagonist was one of the most radical revolutionaries of the 20th century. Maximo Zeledon http://globalrhythm.net/Film/BornIntoBrothels.cfm Who would have thought that a film about children of prostitutes in India could be riveting? Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids is a rare film filled with passion and compassion. Iris Brooks http://globalrhythm.net/Film/Water.cfm Water , written and directed by Deepa Mehta, is the last in her trilogy of “element” films, and it is a crowning achievement for its creator. Brian Zavitz http://globalrhythm.net/Film/SatinRouge.cfm Satin Rouge is a daring Arab drama that addresses how a wanton woman copes with a strict social structure. Kam Williams http://globalrhythm.net/Film/IllSingForYou.cfm I’ll Sing For You , a documentary directed by Swiss filmmaker Jacques Sarasin, is about the life and music of the veteran Malian bluesman Boubacar Traoré, known to his fellow countrymen as “Kar Kar.” Graham Henderson http://globalrhythm.net/Film/BowlingforColumbine.cfm Michael Moore, who seems to delight in annoying establishment types in front of the unblinking eye of his hand-held camera, has never been better than in Bowling For Columbine . Kam Williams http://globalrhythm.net/Film/NowhereinAfrica.cfm Stefanie Zweig chronicled their heart-wrenching tale of survival in the autobiographical Nowhere In Africa , a best-selling novel that focused on the travails of her challenging childhood. Kam Williams http://globalrhythm.net/Film/KarmenGei.cfm Banned at home, a Senegalese Carmen sings against repression. Now I never know whether people want to shake my hand or hurt me,” says Karmen Geï star Djeinaba Diop Gaï. Adrienne Gusoff http://globalrhythm.net/Film/BetweenTwoWorlds.cfm Between Two Worlds is is an in-depth documentary that looks at the illustrious career of India’s ambassador of sitar, Ravi Shankar. Derek Beres http://globalrhythm.net/Film/Timbuktoubab.cfm American musician Markus James produced Timbuktoubab , an entertaining and informative concert film, served up with just the right mix of sand dunes, desertscapes and childlike silliness on the side. Kam Williams http://globalrhythm.net/Film/CalypsoDreams.cfm Calypso Dreams , a documentary that is as much a joyous celebration of the music as it is a belated testament to its legitimate greats, both dead and alive, is a laudable effort to set the record straight. Directed Kam Williams http://globalrhythm.net/Film/YTuMamaTambien.cfm Y Tu Mama Tambien is a brilliant mirror of life. Filmed in Spanish with English subtitles, it is an extremely accessible and enjoyable journey through the labyrinth of human emotion and the search for identity. Derek Beres http://globalrhythm.net/Film/HotelRwanda.cfm When One Man Said No to Mass Madness Jeff Tamarkin http://globalrhythm.net/Film/TravellersampMagicians.cfm Parallel Journeys in a Land Where Time Takes its Time Jeff Tamarkin http://globalrhythm.net/Film/TheMiracleOfCandeal.cfm A Brazilian Favela Plays Music and the World Listens Eliseo Cardona