Por Liz Lopez Rating: A+ Anne Rapp (supervisora de guión de “Tender Mercies”, entre otros) dirigió y produjo el documental “Horton Foote: The Road To Home”, y el estreno mundial fue en el Festival de Cine de Austin de este año. Para cualquiera que no esté familiarizado con Horton Foote, es un dramaturgo y guionista… Continue reading Critica de cine: Horton Foote: The Road to Home en el Austin Film Festival
Author: Mark Saldana
Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: MURDER BURY WIN
By Mark Saldana Rating: 2.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Even though the programmers placed this film in the Comedy Vanguard category, this bloody and gory comic film could also fit in with the Dark Matters label, as the humor goes very dark, embracing gags of the gallows variety. That can be a very difficult line… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: MURDER BURY WIN
Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: HORTON FOOTE: THE ROAD TO HOME
By Liz Lopez Rating: A+ Anne Rapp (“Tender Mercies” script supervisor, among others) directed and produced the documentary, “Horton Foote: The Road To Home,” and the world premiere was at this year’s Austin Film Festival. For anyone who is not familiar with Horton Foote, he is a Wharton, Texas born playwright and screenwriter, who also… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: HORTON FOOTE: THE ROAD TO HOME
Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: BLINDERS
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) I began my vitual film festival a day early with a screener for this entry in the “Dark Matters” category. For the uninitiated, this particular category features films that fall under the horror and dark thriller genres. Blinders certainly fits this bill. This movie puts a… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: BLINDERS
Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: FUGITIVE DREAMS
By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) It has been a while since I have seen an indie art film that has blown me away like this one. I continued my virtual festival with a screener for Fugitive Dreams, a film that comes across as the love child of Andrei Tarkovsky and Jim… Continue reading Austin Film Festival 2020 Review: FUGITIVE DREAMS
Critica De Cine: THE OLD WAYS
Por Liz Lopez Rating:B+ Ha habido varios esfuerzos cinematográficos de terror para transmitir aspectos de la cultura mexicana cuando se trata de rituales de curación, a menudo etiquetados como brujería por personas que no están familiarizadas con la cultura y / o cómo se curan algunas enfermedades antes de que la medicina moderna de Occidente… Continue reading Critica De Cine: THE OLD WAYS
Sitges Film Festival Review: THE OLD WAYS
By Liz Lopez Rating: B+ There have been several horror cinematic efforts to convey aspects of the Mexican culture when it comes to rituals for healing, often labeled as witchcraft by individuals who are not familiar with the culture and/or how some maladies are cured before modern medicine of the West was introduced. Some scripts… Continue reading Sitges Film Festival Review: THE OLD WAYS
BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Fourteen years later, actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has returned as his most famous/infamous character, the often beloved, sometimes hated journalist from Kazakhstan named Borat. Call it serendipity or perfect timing, but Borat has returned to America at a crazy time. Going into this mockumentary, my obvious… Continue reading BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
A Celebration of Fantastic Fest 2020 Review: TEDDY
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Even though I began my virtual festival a day early with a screener, the actual virtual fest began the following night with a beastly opener from France. Every Fantastic Fest has a central theme, and usually the festival highlights and celebrates the films of a particular… Continue reading A Celebration of Fantastic Fest 2020 Review: TEDDY
A Celebration of Fantastic Fest 2020: LAUGHTER
By Mark Saldana Rating 4 (Out of 4 Stars) This French Canadian entry is not what one might expect from Fantastic Fest, and I do sincerely mean that in the best possible way. Don’t get me completely wrong. I absolutely relish the popcorn horror flicks and entertaining, comedic thrillers and action movies, but this movie… Continue reading A Celebration of Fantastic Fest 2020: LAUGHTER