Playing out like a slightly more benign, Norwegian version of Welcome to the Dollhouse , Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's Turn Me On, Dam...

Anyone else exhausted from seeing (or working) so many of this year's screenings at the Portland International Film Festival?  The fe...

I already reviewed the Oscar-nominated, Belgian crime film Bullhead when it played at the 35th annual Portland International Film Festiv...

It didn't matter how tired I was after so many PIFF screenings.  There was no way I was gonna miss out on  Wim Wenders ' appearan...

And here I thought I was going to be clever by comparing Béla Tarr's latest masterwork, The Turin Horse , to the 1993 Bill Murray v...

Darkness enshrouds the landscape in much of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ( Climates , Distant ) latest work, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ; ...

There's a good chance that many people will come to Free Men because Tahar Rahim is its lead actor.  Fair enough, Rahim deservedly ...

Patagonia does something that's become quite common in contemporary cinema; it attempts to tell parallel stories based around a s...

Philippe Faladeau's Monsieur Lazhar travels well-trodden cinematic ground; it's easily filed into the inspirational teacher ge...

When writing during PIFF 34 about Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times) , I noted that every year there's at least one film at the festiv...

The organized crime genre is a pretty crowded field but I'm fairly certain that Bullhead is the only film I've ever seen center...

A gathering of scientists discuss, design and, eventually, pile into a spacecraft that takes them on a fantastic journey to our nearest...

The tensions of the Muslim/Christian divide in Lebanon are reproduced in miniature in actor-director Nadine Labaki's ( Caramel ) Wh...

Fans of absurdist humor shouldn't hesitate to rush out to one of the upcoming screenings of The Fairy , the newest comedy from the F...

A land dispute turns into a blood feud in Joshua Marston's ( Maria Full of Grace ) The Forgiveness of Blood .  Playing out somewhat ...

A large group of men huddle outdoors as their union representative, Michel ( Jean-Pierre Darroussin ) calls out names drawn from a box.  ...

Based on audience reaction during Wednesday's press screening for Almanya: Welcome to Germany , it's going to be really popular ...

Roman Kolger ( Thomas Schubert ) has a problem.  He's been in prison since the age of 14 and now, at age 19, needs to find work in or...