DVD Want List: MOONRISE KINGDOM
Elena Nola Not sure what to get the lover of quirky films in your life? Try Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. You may know the name from works like The Royal Tenenbaums or…
Elena Nola
Hara-kiri: the Death of a Samurai – Miike’s Masterpiece of Restraint
Hara-kiri: the Death of a Samurai (subtitled in English) played as a special presentation of the New Orleans Film Festival, so I got to see it on a big screen,…
Notes from New Orleans Film Festival: Asura
Asura is an anime unlike any I have seen. I am not a huge watcher of anime, so this might simply be my own ignorance of the genre as a…
Notes from New Orleans Film Festival: Dead Man’s Burden
Dead Man’s Burden (written and directed by Jared Moshe) was one of my favorite films from this year’s New Orleans Film Festival. It’s an excellent Western—beautifully filmed, tightly constructed, simple…