Foreign Film

Review: Pieta

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A vicious loan shark gets a visit from a woman insisting that she is the mother that abandoned him years before. As he and this mysterious stranger connect, he begins to realize that he must change the life that...

Wicked and trippy trailer for The Congress starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel

Posted 13 years ago

The first international trailer for THE CONGRESS, starring Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston, Paul Giamatti, and Kodi Smit-McPhee has arrived and it's an odd, trippy, and wicked looking affair. Written and directed by Ari Folman, who did the brilliant...

John Woo’s Flying Tigers will be a two part feature film and six hour miniseries

Posted 13 years ago

John Woo‘s long in development World War II movie FLYING TIGERS is finally moving forward and will begin filming in 2014. In the last three years, FLYING TIGERS has attracted talents such as Liam Neeson, Tom Cruise, and Christopher McQuarrie...

Watch the trailer for controversial Korean crime drama Pieta

Posted 13 years ago

PIETA, which beat THE MASTER for the grand prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is finally getting a North American release thanks to Drafthouse Films. Despite getting acclaim across the globe, PIETA failed to qualify for the Academy Award...

This NSFW trailer for Vanishing Waves is the Lithuanian erotic Inception

Posted 13 years ago

Lithuania is not one of the countries we often get theatrically released from here in the United States. But, there is a first for everything. The 2012 film VANISHING WAVES (previously titled AURORA) has been getting a lot of buzz...

Trailer and poster for Blancanieves, a spanish-language 1920’s set Snow White tale

Posted 13 years ago

Until today, I’d never heard of this film, but after seeing the trailer for BLANCANIEVES I am very intrigued.  Set in 1920’s Seville, Spain and using the sport of bullfighting as its central theme, the black-and-white, Spanish-language film looks like...

Jean Dujardin meets Inception in this teaser for Mobius

Posted 13 years ago

Oscar winner Jean Dujardin is known primarily for comedic roles in France, but his brilliant turn in THE ARTIST gave him the credibility to do whatever projects he wants. One of those that breaks his funny mold is this thriller...

The trailer for Holy Motors may just be the weirdest video you see today

Posted 14 years ago

I love weird, ambiguous cinema. I love pushing the envelope to the furthest limits that motion pictures can handle. I love the bizarre and the unique and the original. HOLY MOTORS looks like it is all of those things at...