Articles by Robert Bell
Seashore
Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon
PUBLISHED May 26, 2015
At first glance, there really isn't much to Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon's feature directorial debut, Seashore. It's a mostly obse...
Fourth Man Out
Andrew Nackman
PUBLISHED May 25, 2015
Andrew Nackman's feature directorial debut, Fourth Man Out, is very much like the plethora of indie "coming out" comedies of the early '00s...
What's Between Us
Claudia Lorenz
PUBLISHED May 22, 2015
For her feature directorial debut, Swiss director Claudia Lorenz has tackled what could be described as a Brokeback Mountain narrative told...
Don't Accept Dreams from Strangers
Roberto Cuzzillo
PUBLISHED May 22, 2015
For anyone that's ever endured film production classes, wherein watching the pretentious and woefully muddled experiments of misguided clas...
Everlasting Love
Marçal Forés
PUBLISHED May 22, 2015
Much like his feature directorial debut, the underrated coming-of-age fable, Animals, Everlasting Love is subtly surreal, existing mostly w...
Welcome to Me
Shira Piven
PUBLISHED May 21, 2015
On paper, the basic premise of Shira Piven's oddball comedy, Welcome to Me, sounds like the sort of high concept conceit that's usually fou...
The Face of an Angel
Michael Winterbottom
PUBLISHED May 21, 2015
Michael Winterbottom's Face of an Angel is very loosely based on the Barbie Latza Nadeau novel, Angel Face, which covered the Amanda Knox t...
Nasty Baby
Sebastian Silva
PUBLISHED May 21, 2015
When Nasty Baby, Sebastian Silva's latest exercise in slow-building, psychological horror, starts out, it seems like the sort of insufferab...