While not all films starring black people are ’black films’, Alexandre Moor’s "Blue Caprice" has been billed as an exploration of the African American ’experience’ .It’s also been described as analogous to ’Precious’ and ’Boys in the Hood’. How does a film about a young person trafficked from Antigua and brainwashed by a sociopath to murder innocent people capture the African American (…) Continue Reading »

Mydylarama is excited to be covering the East End Film Festival! Reviews and previews coming soon. Continue Reading »

’The Invisible War’ is less about a secret war that rape victims are fighting in the military than a series of public and private battles to fix a broken system. Well, broken for the victims of rape, not so much for the rapists who remain (…) Continue Reading »

David Mackenzie’s new film is a much-welcome addition to the British prison drama genre, that weaves sophisticated narrative into a bold critique of the penal system and a mockery of rehabilitation inside. Set in the microcosm of an English prison, Starred Up is the story of serial offender, 19-year-old Eric Love (Jack O’Connell), who has left the relative comfort of foster homes and juvie, (…) Continue Reading »

For the most part Tim’s Vermeer is a film about vision, about how we literally see the world- the limitations of sight and its augmentation through technological means. It’s also a film about how we see the world in the figurative sense; Tim Jenison, a 21st century computer software inventor (whom I would comfortably place in the top 1% or thereabouts) sees it, affectionately, as his (…) Continue Reading »

’Noah’ is certainly appropriately titled. This isn’t a big screen portrayal of one of the great biblical stories of Noah and the Ark. It’s a story about a group of white Europeans/Americans/New Zealanders with accents that have no connection to the Middle East where the Biblical story takes place (beyond the names they didn’t even try!!). Given that the Ark wasn’t mentioned in the title, and (…) Continue Reading »

Alone is a documentary depicting the lives of three young girls, Fen (4), Zhen (6) and Ying (10) in rural, south west China. These young children have been doubly left- first by their mother (for reasons which remain largely unknown) and subsequently by their father, whose flight from the family home is undertaken in order to find work in the city and send money home. Visually, the film’s (…) Continue Reading »

Alain Guiraudie’s erotic gay thriller is located in rural France and takes place over ten summer days. Set on the shores of a vast inviting lake, a small group of men spend the day building up all-over tans in between swimming and cruising around the adjoining forest. We quickly fall into the world of the film and Guiraudie presents with ease the rituals that these gay men enjoy as they escape (…) Continue Reading »

Notre équipe a eu le plaisir de rencontrer Karine BLANC et Michel TAVARES de Takami productions lors du dernier festival de Clermont Ferrand. Voici un petit entretien que nous mettons en ligne... Plus d’infos sur Takami : http://takami-productions.com/ TAKAMI PRODUCTIONS est née en 2002 du désir de deux jeunes auteurs réalisateurs , Karine BLANC et Michel TAVARES, de créer une (…) Lire la suite »

The only thing wrong with Jim Jarmusch’s sumptuous film Only Lovers Left Alive is the title. It baffles me why so many directors, or whoever picks the titles, insist on choosing such confusing ones. I like my film titles to tell me what I’m in for. Like Trainspotting, Million Dollar Baby and Salmon Fishing in The Yemen. The film should of course be called THE Only Lovers Left Alive. See? Just (…) Continue Reading »