Articles by Robert Bell

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  Shadow Dancer

  James Marsh

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2013

  After a brief contextualizing preamble set in 1973 Belfast, James Marsh's deliberately distanced and entirely unsentimental spy thriller, S...

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  At Any Price [Blu-Ray]

  Ramin Bahrani

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2013

  During the early moments of At Any Price, Ramin Bahrani's addition to the increasingly culturally ubiquitous subject of capitalist greed, f...

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  Romeo and Juliet

  Carlo Carlei

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2013

  Before Carlo Carlei's entirely redundant and painfully literal rendition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a title card pops up, informing...

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  Bastards

  Claire Denis

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2013

  When Bastards opens, a steady stream of rain obscures our vision. The rain itself is the intended image, but it's consistency and persiste...

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  Epic [Blu-Ray]

  Chris Wedge

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2013

  "Many leaves, one tree" is the motto reiterated by an army of miniature, interchangeable leaf-men literally fighting the anthropomorphized...

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  The Island of St. Matthews

  Kevin Everson

  PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2013

  Knowing that director Kevin Jerome Everson is, in addition to being a filmmaker, a noted visual artist helps contextualize the experimental...

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  All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

  Jonathan Levine

  PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2013

  Back in 2006, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane did the festival circuit, receiving primarily underground, blogger acclaim for its superficial p...

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  Haute Cuisine

  Christian Vincent

  PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2013

  In the late '80s, Daniéle Delpeuch (a woman who made a name for herself a decade prior selling Foie Gras to some of France's top chefs), le...