Articles by Robert Bell

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  Farewell, My Queen [Blu-Ray]

  Benoît Jacquot

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  Depicted as profligate and dissolute in some academic texts, and frivolously superficial, being a substantial instigator of the French Revo...

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  All in Good Time

  Nigel Cole

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  In essence, deliberately idiosyncratic dysfunctional family dramedy All in Good Time is exactly what you would expect from the writer of Ea...

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  Middle of Nowhere

  Ava DuVernay

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  With three different movies about women trying to cope with the quotidian while their husbands serve time in prison — the others bein...

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  Side Effects

  Steven Soderbergh

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  Marking the third collaboration between director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (Contagion and The Informant being the o...

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  Les Biches

  Claude Chabrol

  PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2013

  In its time, Claude Chabrol's slow-building psychological thriller, Les Biches, was considered taboo. Barbarella had come out a year prior...

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  Red

  Krzysztof Kieslowki

  PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2013

  Red, the final film in Krzysztof Kieslowki's Three Colours trilogy about contemporary French society (the others being Blue (Liberty) and W...

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  Killer of Sheep

  Charles Burnett

  PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2013

  Though screened very rarely outside of underground circuits and its initial festival run, Killer of Sheep, Charles Burnett's wildly indepen...

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  The Last White Knight

  Paul Saltzman

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2013

  In 1965, a young, idealistic Paul Saltzman traveled to Mississippi from Toronto to volunteer as a civil rights worker after hearing about t...