High-jumps and Hi-jinks at the 1936 Olympic games. In 1936 Gretel Bergmann was Germany's most successful female high-jumper, frustratingly for the Nazi's she was also Jewish. Understandably Bergmann did not feel like representing her country. What with it's penchant of hatred toward her own people. Understandably the Nazi's didn't really want
Kristin Scott Thomas doesn't star in a comedy that's not actually a comedy. Professor of Chinese business practices Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri) finds himself in a bind. He has promised his wife Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas) that he will get a visa application sorted for one of her relatives. This means meeting
How I Came to The Work of Actor RUSS RUSSO (or rather, how it came to me) by Pablo D'Stair Like much of the art that has come to mean so much to me in life—from the work of Joyce and Mamet, to McGoohan’s The Prisoner to the giallos of Argento et
By Gordon Foote. Internet kick-starter projects, and the like, pose an interesting dilemma for reviewers: Is it fair to judge projects with shoe-string budgets on the same scale as their studio backed, multi-million dollar brethren? On the one hand you have the obvious technical limitations brought about by a smaller budget,
As the conclusion to his uber-bright, uber-gory Teen Destruction trilogy, Nowhere is a feast for the eyes. The highly stylized sets, trippy characters and theatrical gore are even more hyperbolised than the initial The Doom Generation and Totally F***ed Up. Think Rules of Attraction meets Fear and Loathing in Las
