Paweł Łozińki in his “The Balcony Movie” lets us ride the portal of his camera lens into life not simply in Warzaw, Poland where it was filmed but life itself. He spent over two and a half years filming passersby’s beneath his balcony asking them the meaning of life and how they cope with life.Continue reading “RKS Film: Polish Documentary “The Balcony Movie”: A Voyeur of Life”
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RKS Film: “Bad Axe”: A Very Dangerous Man Inflames Right Wing Rage in the United States
Bad Axe is a small town in Michigan. It is home to the Siev family. Father Chun is a refugee from Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Chun escaped with his mother and six children to Thailand and then moved to the United States. His father “disappeared” in Cambodia. Chun was tortured and beaten witnessing executions and atrocities.Continue reading “RKS Film: “Bad Axe”: A Very Dangerous Man Inflames Right Wing Rage in the United States”
RKS Film: A Very Cheesy Christmas: “Baking All the Way”
Is there an unwritten rule that Christmas movies of late must suffer from cheesy plots and rather obnoxious music? Let’s face it “It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of the biggest cheese Christmas films ever made yet once every two years it still is worth a view. “Baking All the Way” is stuffed with cheeseContinue reading “RKS Film: A Very Cheesy Christmas: “Baking All the Way””
RKS Film: “The Human Trial”: Should Private Enterprise Have the Power to Control Pain, Suffering and Life Itself?
The documentary “The Human Trial” is a five-year journey exploring the development of stem cell laden implants into human subjects suffering from Type 1 Diabetes in the anticipation they will produce insulin. Five million people a year die from complications attributable to diabetes. If it doesn’t kill you it may very well blind you orContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Human Trial”: Should Private Enterprise Have the Power to Control Pain, Suffering and Life Itself?”
RKS Wine: Not a Corporate Lawyer, Accountant, Neurosurgeon, Corporate Executive, Overpaid Professional Athlete or Cardiologist? Welcome to Delicious Brutality!
If you are not a “hot shot” it is certainly possible to discover a quality wine at a proletarian price. I mean my friend the Penniless Pensioner would guzzle Chateau Latour with his Boulud Burger in Manhattan and think nothing of paying $1500 as “chump change” for a bottle of Bordeaux First Growth. With aContinue reading “RKS Wine: Not a Corporate Lawyer, Accountant, Neurosurgeon, Corporate Executive, Overpaid Professional Athlete or Cardiologist? Welcome to Delicious Brutality!”
63rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Three Canadian Indigenous Films Featured
3-13/11/2022 Indigenous Cinema Τhe Festival’s grand tribute breaks the rules From Canada’s Inuit and the Latin American tribes all the way to the Australian Aboriginals and New Zealand’s Māori people, the 63rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival sheds light onto cultures, ways of life, and worldviews that have been ostracized from the official frame of ourContinue reading “63rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Three Canadian Indigenous Films Featured”
63rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM Line-Up
3-13/11/2022 LIST OF FILMS OPENING FILM THE FABELMANS, Steven SPIELBERG, USA, 2022, 151’ CLOSING FILM CORSAGE, Marie KREUTZER, Austria-Luxembourg-Germany-France, 2022, 112’ INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Main Program A PIECE OF SKY, Michael KOCH, Switzerland, 2022, 136’ BLUE JEAN, Georgia OAKLEY, UK, 97’ ● I HAVE ELECTRIC DREAMS, Valentina MAUREL, Belgium-France-Costa Rica, 2022, 100’ LISTEN, Maria DOUZA, Greece-Bulgaria,Continue reading “63rd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM Line-Up”
RKS Film: “Waking up Dead”: Rock Bottom to Death or Salvation?
If you have viewed the 1947 or 2021 version of “Nightmare Alley” you have a very vivid recollection of what rock bottom is. In that film there was rock bottom to start, then success and then a horrific nightmarish rock bottom. In “Waking Up Dead” there would be a linear line of a descent toContinue reading “RKS Film: “Waking up Dead”: Rock Bottom to Death or Salvation?”
RKS Film: “Drinkwater”: Intelligent Teen Angst
Yes we have seen countless teen angst films such as “Rebel Without a Cause”, “Breakfast Club”, “Acid Test” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. There may be a fine line between vapid teenploitation films and intelligent teen angst films. “Drinkwater” falls into the intelligent teen angst genre. So expect some of usual plot lines; Conflict withContinue reading “RKS Film: “Drinkwater”: Intelligent Teen Angst”
RKS Film: “Shady Grove”: Misandrist Suspense
“Shady Grove” is not a horror film as I see it. It is in the misandrist suspense category. It is one of those films that drops a multitude of hints along its plot line but the hints only make sense after the closing credits roll. Sort of like a puzzle suddenly making sense. Shaina (NikiContinue reading “RKS Film: “Shady Grove”: Misandrist Suspense”
