Articles by Robert Bell

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  The Past

  Asghar Farhadi

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  As was the case with his Oscar-winning domestic drama, A Separation, Asghar Farhadi's The Past preoccupies itself with divorce and familial...

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  Concrete Night

  Pirjo Honkaselo

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Pirjo Honkaselo's first narrative film in 15 years, Concrete Night opens, quite exquisitely, with a dream. Fourteen-year-old Simo (Johannes...

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  At Berkeley

  Frederick Wiseman

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Having already established an effective template for deconstructing and analyzing the complexities that comprise a functioning institution,...

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  Metallica: Through the Never 3D

  Nimród Antal

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Unlike the abundance of overly sanitized, youth-oriented concert films from the likes of Katy Perry and One Direction, cashing in on the di...

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  Young & Beautiful

  Francois Ozon

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Throughout his career as a director, François Ozon has openly played with genre and theory, making sweeping emotional tales cold and asceti...

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  The Great Beauty

  Paulo Sorrentino

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  "Why haven't you written a second novel?" This question is regularly posed to the successful, cynical and highly pragmatic Jep Gambardella...

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  Blue Ruin

  Jeremy Saulnier

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  When Blue Ruin opens, Dwight (Macon Blair), a homeless man living out of a rusty old blue Pontiac, scrounges for food at a local carnival,...

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  Blue is the Warmest Colour

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  15-year-old Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a bit of a tomboy. She speaks with a masculine flair, walks without grace, shovels food in her...