Cinema Blend Babel (film) Babel is a 2006 international drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, following Amores perros and 21 Grams.[1] The film portrays multiple stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, and Mexico/U.S.A. Babel focuses on four interrelated sets of situations and characters, and many events are revealed out of sequence. In a remote desert location in Morocco, Abdullah, a goatherder, buys a high-powered .270 Winchester M70 rifle and a box of ammunition from his neighbor Hassan Ibrahim to shoot the jackals that have been preying on his goats. Glimpses of television news programs reveal that the US government holds the shooting to be a terrorist act and is pressuring the Moroccan government to apprehend the culprits. The movie's first plot is interspersed with scenes of Richard and Susan. Morocco United States/Mexico Japan Filming locations
Movie City News Tribeca Film Festival Announces Film Selections for Spotlight and Cinemania Sections and Special Screenings « the diary of a film awards fanatic The 10th edition of the Festival will take place from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan. “This year’s Spotlight is a mixture of carefully selected festival favorites from around the globe, highly anticipated releases, a number of new works by high profile filmmakers and films with subjects of special note,” said Genna Terranova, Senior Programmer. “And in Cinemania we really kick it up a notch with boundary-pushing genre films packed with action, sexy thrills, and an extra helping of blood and guts for good measure.” The Assault (L’assaut), directed by Julien Leclerq, written by Simon Moutairou and Julien Leclerq. Independent Movies, Film Festivals, New Movies Reviews, News and Interviews - Film Threat
The Tree of Life (2011 Mark Kermode's film blog Limitless (2011 Roger Ebert's Journal When I began as a film critic, Jean-Luc Godard was widely thought to have reinvented the cinema with "Breathless" (1960). Now he is almost 80 and has made what is said to be his last film, and he's still at the job, reinventing. If only he had stopped while he was ahead. The thousands of seats in the Auditorium Debussy were jammed, and many were turned away. Continue reading → An article reflecting on 25 years at the movies by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. Continue reading → An essay about Rod Blagojevich by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → Roger Ebert's essay on film in the 1978 edition of the Britannica publication, "The Great Ideas Today." Continue reading → Thank you. Continue reading → PRESS RELEASE: CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Terrence Malick's 1978 film "Days of Heaven" won an Oscar for best cinematography, and Roger Ebert likely found that no surprise. Continue reading →
Tropic Thunder (2008 Video: Magnolia Sucker Punch Review: Don't Drink the Kool-Aid - TIME Sucker punch: In theaters where this movie is playing, it’s a beverage sold at the concession stand. Critics have descended upon the new film from director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole) like vultures on roadkill. They excoriate it for being a PG-13 version of fanboy porn: for creating a world of teen hotties in bordello bondage fighting dragons and Nazi zombies and then not delivering the lurid goods. “You’ve heard of films wanting their cake and eating it too?” rants Slant’s estimable Ed Gonzalez. “Sucker Punch promises cake and when you show up, it’s fruitcake, and you’re like, ‘What the f— is this s—?’ So naturally, before I’ve even seen Sucker Punch, I’m interested. The premise: back in the 1950s, when twin teens are about to inherit their mother’s fortune, their wicked stepfather kills one of the girls, pins the murder on the other — Emily Browning’s Baby Doll — and sends her to the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane.