by Pier Marton | Nov 18, 2012 | Afri, Asia, Doc, France, Human Rights, Middle-East, Review, STL
The St. Louis International Film Festival is rounding up; as always an amazing round-up of jewels from all around the world… I wish I could have found the time to write individual longer reviews this year. Below, based on what I was able to watch, my own...
by Pier Marton | Nov 7, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, France, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Middle-East, Review
Lorraine Lévy: I wanted to make a film about openings and hope/Je voulais faire un film d’ouverture, un film d’espoir. My review: I too could say “provocative and moving” as other critics have said, but I would rather not. Sometimes life takes...
by Pier Marton | May 8, 2012 | Dance, Film, France, Humor, Idées, Poet, Review, STL, Theater, Women
The film’s website with its US screenings (but it is on Netflix too now). My short review: The Fairy/La Fée As Wallace Stevens has eloquently bemoaned, “reality is a cliché,” and The College of Pataphysics in France has for years attempted to remedy...
by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2012 | Art, Care, Death, Doc, Film, France, Health, Poet, Review, STL, Women
En résumé: Le Gamin au Vélo. De nouveaux magnifiques débats à corps perdus par les frères Dardenne… peut-être qu’on s’y retrouvera malgré tout? Grand Prix Cannes 2011. –> 20/20 My review: The Kid with the Bike. The Dardenne brothers’...
by Pier Marton | Mar 9, 2012 | Books, Death, Film, Food, Jewish, Review, STL
Joe Pollack, beloved writer/critic, has died today. It is a sad day for St. Louis. His last film review posted by his wife Ann, after his death this morning. An earlier review of Food, Inc. – the movie. Harper Barnes on Joe Pollack. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Feb 16, 2012 | Art, Cam, Death, Film, Food, Magyar, Mystery, Now, Review, STL
At Webster University Feb. 17, 18 & 19 – 7:30 p.m. My review: Highly celebrated by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Susan Sontag, cinema’s current Homo Hungaricus, Béla Tarr is famous for the rarely screened films “Sátántangó” and “Werckmeister...