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MUSEUM HOURS

There is very little plot in this intriguing wee movie from writer/director Jem Cohen although it is billed as a drama. Essentially it is this. Anne, a middle-aged Canadian woman, rushes off to Vienna after she gets a call that a distant cousin of hers who has no other family is in a coma.  In … Continue reading

Mustang

This sobering tale of five orphaned adolescent Turkish girl starts on a high note as they are having fun playing on the beach with their male classmates celebrating that the school term has just ended and the summer break is about to start. Their euphoria quickly disappears when they get home and are confronted by their … Continue reading

MY DOG TULIP

J R Ackersley was a British writer and editor who started working with the BBC in London the year after its founding in 1927.  He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain, and later wrote his own highly successful memoir. He was also openly gay, a rarity in his time … Continue reading

MY FAVORITE INDIE MOVIES OF 2012

I reviewed some 26O movies in 2012 … and as I am reasonably careful(!) about what I choose to watch, there were very few humdingers.   There were in fact some really stunning cinematic treats that made my year so much richer, and that I was really excited to share with you. This however is … Continue reading

MY FIRST WAR

In 2006 at the start of the Second Lebanon War, Tel Aviv film school graduate Yariv Mozer was called up as Army Reservist Officer to serve at the Front.  He decided to take his video camera along with the idea that over the next few weeks he would taping how the war progressed but he … Continue reading

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