Articles by Robert Bell

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  Hiroshima, mon amour

  Alain Resnais

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2013

  After achieving near universal acclaim for the 1955 Holocaust documentary short, Night and Fog, French New Wave pioneer Alain Resnais was c...

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  Amour

  Michael Haneke

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2013

  Having a knack for calling bullshit on mainstream cinematic conventions and their tendency to placate the masses, notorious auteur Michael...

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  A Dark Truth

  Damian Lee

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2013

  In the opening moments of Damian Lee's unconvincing and oft-clumsy eco-thriller, A Dark Truth, a small Ecuadorian village is pillaged, leav...

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  Gangster Squad

  Ruben Fleischer

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2013

  Originally, Gangster Squad was slated to open in September of 2012, until a real-life theatre shooting in Colorado made a similar in-film s...

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  Zero Dark Thirty

  Kathryn Bigelow

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2013

  When Zero Dark Thirty (the cinematic depiction of the decade-long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, following the 2001 terrorist attacks) opens,...

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  The Conformist

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2013

  Establishing, and in many ways defining, Bernardo's Bertolucci's omnipresent career thematic trajectory of linking sex and politics, The Co...

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  Rebelle

  Kim Nguyen

  PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2013

  Though known mostly for helming oblique sci-fi allegories like Truffe and The Marsh, Quebecois director Kim Nguyen has a loose, naturalisti...

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  The Words [Blu-Ray]

  Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal

  PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2013

  In concept, often middling, serviceable and ultimately banal drama The Words has an abundance of intriguing thematic aspects. If given the...