A Brazilian documentary about Silvino Santos, an early film-maker. The reconstructed protagonist speaks directly to the camera which can be interesting. The production value is very high, but unfortunately that doesn’t prevent the film from being boring. Silvino Santos just doesn’t seem like a very interesting individual (yikes!). IMDB: 7.5 (17 votes) / 87 minutes [...]
Super High Me, and obvious pun and concept-theft on Super Size Me, is funny as hell. It doesn’t pretend to be very original, but it does take a controversial subject head on. I don’t think it’s a masterpiece, but it manages to shed light on an old subject in a new way, while cracking me [...]
A trip into the mind of David Lynch as he directs “Inland Empire”. david lynch documentary 2007 teaser 2 stars / IMDB: 7.0 (229 votes) / Rotten tomatoes: 58% (19 reviews) / Official site / 84 minutes Directed by: blackANDwhite
Vashti Bunyan is a singer/song-writer with an interesting story. As a young woman she made a beautiful album and was then forgotten for 30 years. Freak-folk artists like Devendra Banhart and Vetiver brought her back from oblivion a few years ago and Bunyan is now making music again. She is very delicate, soft-spoken and gentle [...]
I like Bob Marley and so does the director of this film. The film is a portrait of the album “Exodus” and of the year it was made, 1977. Unfortunately it’s also a weak film – it’s exceptionally difficult to understand Bob’s dialect and with no sub-titles most of the audience lost the central points [...]
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