Articles by Robert Bell

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  It's a Disaster

  Todd Berger

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2013

  As suggested by the simple yet evocative title, It's a Disaster, the central, guiding gag of Todd Berger's apocalyptic comedy of manners li...

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  Like Someone in Love

  Abbas Kiarostami

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2013

  After making Certified Copy, which, amidst a litany of themes – most of which were established even earlier in Abbas Kiarostami's fil...

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  Trance

  Danny Boyle

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2013

  Danny Boyle, a director that vacillates between the gritty underworld of unembellished violence and the mainstream world of uplifting pap,...

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  Upstream Color

  Shane Carruth

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2013

  Nine years ago, Shane Carruth's ambitious, wilfully oblique Primer (an oblique, tersely constructed assertion of mathematics and time trave...

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  Manet: Portraying Life

  Phil Grabsky

  PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2013

  Much like his 2012 HD film, Leonardo Live, an ersatz recreation and documentation of the works and experiences of the "Painter in the Court...

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  Paris-Manhattan

  Sophie Lellouche

  PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2013

  Though set in the titular Paris, the Manhattan portion of Sophie Lellouche's debut feature, Paris-Manhattan, refers to the obsession that y...

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  Renoir

  Gilles Bourdos

  PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2013

  As much a biopic about the anticlimactic golden years of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet)—in the late 1910s while creating his...

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  Queen of Montreal

  Sólveig Anspach

  PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2013

  Grief, self-awareness and empowerment are just a few broad themes floundering around Sólveig Anspach's mediocre, desperately quirky comedy...