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Chanting Down Babylon
He might be just over five feet tall, but producer, singer and roots messenger Lee “Scratch” Perry casts a profoundly huge shadow over Jamaican music and culture. For that reason alone, it’s amazing to consider how long fans have been waiting for a film like The Upsetter to come around.
By Douglas Heselgrave
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One-To-One Diplomacy
Eran Kolirin’s debut film The Band’s Visit has enjoyed widespread appeal, irrespective of whether one keeps up with the latest developments in Arab-Israeli relations. New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox’s 2004 film Walk On Water, released on DVD in 2005 and worth revisiting here, shows a different side of Israeli relations as they unfold both within the country and beyond its borders.
By Eve M. Ferguson
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A Clash Of Ideas
The Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days will make you mighty glad to live in a time and place where woman have abortion rights, while Julien Temple's documentary The Future Is Unwritten might just make you feel a little better about not being Joe Strummer.
By Phil Nugent
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A Sowbiz Biopic And An Agitprop Drama
Phil Nugent looks at La Vie En Rose, a cinematic biography of the legendary (and legendarily troubled) French singer Edith Piaf. He also subjects himself to the agitprop African docudrama Bamako.
By Phil Nugent
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Remembering Ousmane Sembene
For 40 years, the late Ousmane Sembene was the pride of African Cinema. His last film, Moolaade, took on the harrowing subject of female genital mutilation—a poignant statement reflective of the director's amazing career.
By Phil Nugent
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I Am Cuba: A Lost Classic Found (Again)
I Am Cuba, an ambitious, and at times surreal portrait of the country created in 1964 by a team of visiting Soviet filmmakers, was audacious, visually dazzling, and completely forgotten for 30 years. Now a deluxe three-DVD set lovingly resurrects this milestone for home video.
By Phil Nugent
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Willie Colón Weighs In On El Cantante
Willie Colón sounds off on the recent El Cantante biopic about his friend Hector Lavoe.
By Willie Colón
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The Latest From Patrice Leconte & Pascale Ferran
In Patrice Leconte’s new comedy My Best Friend, Daniel Auteuil plays François, an elegantly self-assured antiques dealer who is, beneath his sophisticated exterior, a buffoon, and he pours all that quiet intensity into the character’s cluelessness.
By Phil Nugent
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Milarepa
The small yet well-appointed theater at National Geographic was sold out days in advance of the US Premiere of Milarepa. Certainly, the globe-trekking efforts of the Dalai Lama have brought Tibetan Buddhism to popular attention, but the appeal of this film is transcendent, its theme universal.
By Eve M. Ferguson
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Screamers
Carla Garapedian’s Screamers stars the prog-metal band System Of A Down and features plenty of performance footage of the group, but it’s not a concert movie; it’s a treatise on the international history of genocide.
By Phil Nugent
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