Articles by Robert Bell

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  Jack

  Elizabeth Scharang

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2015

  There's a famous Margaret Atwood quote that goes: "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, while women are afraid that men will kill...

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  The Paradise Suite

  Joost van Ginkel

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2015

  Over a decade ago, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Paul Thomas Anderson popularized the multi-narrative format, making movies like Amores P...

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  Wedding Doll

  Nitzan Gilady

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2015

  Though Israeli director Nitzan Gilady is best known for making documentaries, his feature film Wedding Doll demonstrates a natural aptitude...

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  The Promised Land

  He Ping

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2015

  He Ping's first film set in the present day, though stylistically different than his prior formal period pieces, is no less interested in t...

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  Sunset Song

  Terence Davies

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2015

  Shortly after Terence Davies' superlative adaptation of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth was released, he planned to film Lewis Grassic G...

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  Horizon

  Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and Bergur Bernburg

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2015

  Horizon, the title of this mostly conventional and straightforward subject-based documentary, refers to the stylistic preoccupation of Icel...

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  I Promise You Anarchy

  Julio Hernández Cordón

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2015

  Mexico-based Guatemalan director Julio Hernández Cordón's latest feature, I Promise You Anarchy, is an intriguing blend of genres and polit...

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  Keeper

  Guillaume Senez

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2015

  The Belgian teen pregnancy drama Keeper has been described as the anti-Juno. Where the zippy comedy that put Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody...