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I Am Love (2010)–**** I haven’t seen many films at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival, but for the quantity-over-quality people attending the fest, I’ll say this: I doubt you’ve seen a better film than I Am Love. Filled with rapturous sensuality and tragic melodrama, this Italian export from maestro Luca Guadagnino is thrilling from [...]
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I AM LOVE movie review – CIFF 34
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 28th, 2010
CIFF 34 Preview: HIPSTERS
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 26th, 2010
I don’t remember where I discovered Hipsters. (It probably came through on my “awesome Russian musicals” Google Alert.) Let’s just say when I watched the trailer above the first time a few months ago, I knew I would have to see this Russian Hairspray. I just didn’t think it would ever happen in a theater. [...]
CIFF 34 Quickies: HANNAH FREE, FALKENBERG FAREWELL, TOE TO TOE
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 21st, 2010
Hannah Free (2009)–** An aging lesbian lays in a nursing home just rooms away from the comatose partner she is barred from seeing. Even with its topical subject, this softball romance never reaches a dramatic peak. What could have been a gay The Notebook is instead a cumbersome, often boring, theater adaptation that is actually [...]
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No Comments »CIFF 34 Preview: NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL OF ALLEN IVERSON
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 21st, 2010
On Valentine’s Day 1993, a brawl between white teenagers and black teenagers broke out in a Hampton, Virginia, bowling alley. Four young men were arrested, all black. One high school basketball superstar and now pro ball player Allen Iverson. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson tells the story [...]
CIFF 34 Preview: THE GRADUATE
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 20th, 2010
You know this movie, but if you’re like me you probably haven’t seen it on the big screen. Thanks to the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival’s “From the Page to the Projector” program, now you can get a chance to watch Mike Nichols’ landmark dramedy The Graduate the way it was meant to be seen. [...]
THE APE movie review – CIFF 34
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 20th, 2010
The Ape (2009)–***1/2 Director Jesper Ganslandt says that his film The Ape was inspired by the true crimes he read about in newspapers. But he didn’t want the fiction behind those stories. For 81 minutes, Ganslandt thrusts us into the life, and the psyche, of a man dealing with the aftermath of a violent act [...]
CIFF 34 Preview: THE APE
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 19th, 2010
The Ape has already made a splash in Toronto, Venice and London. Now it will debut in Cleveland in the CIFF’s “Someone to Watch” category. Directed by Jesper Ganslandt, The Ape is, as described by the CIFF, ” the story of a series of untidy events – just like in real life.” From Sweden. Screening [...]
Cleveland International Film Festival starts tomorrow #CIFF #HappyinCLE
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 17th, 2010
Sure SXSW may be going on in Austin right now, but in my backyard, it’s Cleveland International Film Festival time. The 34th Cleveland International Film Festival, March 18-28, 2010, kicks of tomorrow night with a screening of the film TiMER, director Jac Schaeffer’s first feature. I won’t be at the opening, but I don’t think [...]
CIFF wrap-up, Twitter-style
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 31st, 2009
The 33rd Cleveland International Film Festival ended Sunday and I only saw 16 movies during the 10 day festival. (I say only because a coworker decided to see 33 of the 317 films screened.) Of course, day jobs, though helpful when it comes to paying the bills, do not make it easy to write about [...]
CIFF Review: Alexander the Last
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 29th, 2009
Alexander the Last (2009)–**** Mumblecore king Joe Swanberg told the audience at the 33rd Cleveland International Film Festival that he develops his stories after spending a week living with the people in his films. They bond, tell stories, and collaboratively develop the relationships, and thus the scenes, in the film. Alexander the Last, which follows [...]
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