All Discovery articles – Page 5

Reviews

A Brand New Life (Une Vie Toute Neuve)

2009-05-21T10:39:00Z

Dir/scr Ounie Lecomte. France-S. Korea. 2009. 92 mins.

Reviews

The Little One (La Pivellina)

2009-05-20T12:25:00Z

Dir: Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel. Austria-Italy. 2009. 100mins.

Reviews

Last Ride

2009-03-09T13:26:00Z

Dir: Glendyn Ivin. Aust. 2009. 96 mins

Reviews

Samson & Delilah

2009-03-02T13:34:00Z

Dir/scr/cine: Warwick Thornton. Aust. 2009. 101 mins

Reviews

Gigante (Giant)

2009-02-08T17:00:00Z

Dir/scr: Adrian Biniez. Uruguay-Germany-Argentina-Netherlands. 2009. 84mins.

Reviews

Lymelife

2008-09-11T16:19:00Z

Dir. Derick Martini, US, 2008, 93 minutesLymelife is a coming-of-age story that takes another look at the darker side of suburban paradise: Long Island in the 1970’s, where Lyme Disease spread by local insects and carried by its picturesque deer is the new plague, and families ...

Reviews

What Doesn't Kill You

2008-09-10T23:00:00Z

Dir. Brian Goodman, US, 2008, 100 minutesSouth Boston’s Irish gangland fatalism returns to the screen in Brian Goodman’s debut, a buddies-in-crime drama. Two childhood friends in the Southie slums graduate from petty crime to robbery, murder, drugs and prison, and even to a little self-awareness.The challenge ...

Reviews

$9.99

2008-09-08T22:30:00Z

Dir. Tatia Rosenthal.Israel/Australia, 2008. 78 mins.Dealing with such lightweight issues as ‘the meaning of life’ and ‘happiness’ may seem a bit excessive for a stop-motion animated film weighing in at less than 78 minutes. But the film doesn’t take itself that seriously after all, defusing some ...

Reviews

The Stoning Of Soraya M

2008-09-08T18:55:00Z

Dir. Cyrus Nowrasteh. US. 2008. 116mins.This harrowing, if cinematically flawed, account of a male mob’s murder of a young wife and mother according to Shariah law in an Iranian village in 1986, just a few years after Khomeini took power, takes on particular relevance today. Exposes ...

Reviews

Rain (Lluvia)

2008-09-07T01:55:00Z

Dir: Maria Govan. The Bahamas. 2008. 93 mins.One of the first indigenously produced films to come out of the Bahamas, Maria Govan’s Rain shows a different side to Nassau where, in the shadows of luxury resorts and ocean liners, lives a subset of islanders battling the ...

Reviews

Cold Lunch (Lonsj)

2008-08-29T09:26:00Z

Dir: Eva Sorhaug. Norway. 2008. 86mins.A few good scenes, some quirky characters and a striking visual style don’t quite add up to a hot meal in Eva Sorhaug’s bite-sized Cold Lunch. Screening as an out of competition title in this year’s Critics’ Week, the Norwegian interlinked ...

Reviews

Snow (Snijeg)

2008-05-21T16:10:00Z

Dir: Aida Begic. Bosnia and Herzegovina-Germany-France. 2008. 99mins.

Reviews

Delta

2008-05-21T14:10:00Z

Dir: Kornel Mundruczo.Hungary/ Germany 2008. 110 mins.

Reviews

Tony Manero

2008-05-19T11:49:00Z

Dir: Pablo Larrain. Chile-Brazil. 2008. 98mins .

Reviews

Hunger

2008-05-15T18:38:00Z

Un Certain Regard