All articles by Howard Feinstein – Page 7
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Bart Got A Room
Dir: Brian Hecker. 2008. USA. 80mins.Bart Got A Room falls in that painful neurotic sphere that connects the vulgarities of lower-middle-class Jewish family life in Tamara Jenkins's The Slums of Beverly Hills, the Floridian sterility and kooky dysfunction of Little Miss Sunshine, and the unfocused, ever-horny worldview of Philip Roth's ...
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Newcastle
Dir/scr: Dan Castle. Australia. 2008. 106 mins.Dan Castle is an American-born director, but he recognises the dichotomies of Australia, where he makes films. The best thing about Newcastle, a feature set in the country's third largest city, is its awareness of how an industrial landscape (coal and shipping) can coexist ...
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I Am Because We Are
Dir: Nathan Rissman. USA. 2008. 85 mins.On just about every level, Los Angeles and landlocked Malawi, the second poorest nation on earth, would appear to exist in universes not so much parallel as perpendicular. Yet in I Am Because We Are, the Madonna production chiefly about the plight of Malawian ...
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The Objective
Dir: Daniel Myrick. 2008. USA. 90 mins.Daniel Myrick co-directed the indie commercial sensation The Blair Witch Project with Eduardo Sanchez in 1999. It's nearly a quantum leap from three student campers lost in rural Maryland in 1994 to a gaggle of U.S. Special Ops in an arid, remote section of ...
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Kill Them All (Matar a Todos)
Dir: Esteban Schroeder. Uruguay, Argentina, Chile. 2007. 97mins. In Kill Them All, Esteban Schroeder plumbs the unstable political landscape of fledgling democracies in the South America of the early '90s. His confident, dynamic investigation of the complicity of governments that succeeded the juntas in countries like his native Uruguay, Argentina, ...