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Outside the Lines - The Top 20 International/Indie Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. With many indie/international films receiving more and more mainstream approval from unfamiliar audiences, many of the titles here could be considered part of the overall 2008 Best Of. But their individuality and multicultural appeal keep them a quality concept apart.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

Film Review

Boy A

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Jul.08] :. Boy A, based on Jonathan Trigell’s novel, lays out an intricate map of how social expectations and limits shape individual horizons.

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Film Review

The Last Legion

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Aug.07] :. The leaps of faith in The Last Legion are many, but once you've made one or two, Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai seems as likely a super-lethal fighter as Mr. Darcy.

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Film Feature

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

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Alfonso Cuaron: ‘The present, projected into the future’

by Joshua Klein [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Mar.07] :. Cuaron talks about Children of Men, his powerful film with explicit references to the political present.

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Film Review

Children of Men (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jan.07] :. Even with so much attention paid to her body and to her child, Kee's story is secondary to Theo's, as his loss of hope must be undone and his past redressed.

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On a Clear Day (2006)

by Jesse Hicks

[11.May.06] :. Frank's quest shapes a kind of secret fraternity for the men around him. They revel in his determination to do what seems impossible to them.

 

Young Adam (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Sep.04] :. 'Joe's abandonment is like a political act and a political philosophy, he's a libertine and a libertarian,' says Tilda Swinton.

 

Young Adam (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Apr.04] :. Joe's trajectory through post-war Glasgow and Edinburgh takes on a sort of dread inevitability.

 

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Aug.03] :. Peter Mullan's film both amplifies and flattens these stories, so they are at once sensational and too intimate.

 

Orphans (1997/2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

In the Glasgow, Scotland harbor, on a cloudy windy morning after a storm, a man's bleeding body floats on a frail piece of wood. For all its artsy beauty, this poster image for Orphans, the writing and directing debut of actor Peter Mullan, is misleading, for it depicts perhaps the only serene moment in the film, one that interrupts the stabbing, shooting, screaming, inclement weather, and other calamities that rage on as four grown-up siblings mourn their mother's early death.

 

The Claim (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Here the primary players are caught between forging their futures (individual and communal) and regretting their pasts, conjuring up a civilization in an unforgivably brutal environment.