Articles by Robert Bell

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  Enough Said

  Nicole Holofcener

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2013

  Writer/director Nicole Holofcener's style, as deceptively simple as it may be, is that of clever social observation. Her characters are oft...

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  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

  Cody Cameron & Kris Pearn

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2013

  As summarized in a highly kinetic, slyly sarcastic opening montage — one that sets the tone for a rapid-paced work of absurdist comed...

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  Canopy

  Aaron Wilson

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2013

  Set during the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942, Aaron Wilson's deliberately simplistic, albeit highly observant, experimental featur...

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  Brazilian Western

  René Sampaio

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2013

  Though Brazilian Western shares obvious structural and aesthetic similarities with the titular western genre, capitalizing on the implicit...

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  When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

  Corneliu Porumboiu

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2013

  Just as he did with the deconstructionist, grammatically preoccupied Police, Adjective, Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu continues to a...

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  September

  Penny Panayotopoulou

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2013

  After 11-years away from feature-length filmmaking, Penny Panayotopoulou returns to the idea of loss as instigator of change with September...

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  Wild Duck

  Yannis Sakaridis

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2013

  Dimitris (Alexandros Logothetis), a telecom contractor forced to shut down his business due to economic woes, accepts a gig tracking down t...

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  Cristo Rey

  Leticia Tonos Paniagua

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2013

  Loosely based on Romeo & Juliet, Leticia Tonos Paniagua's sophomore feature, Cristo Rey, is as much about its geography as it is about the...