Scribbles and Ramblings

Doing a deep dive into a specific region or nation’s cinema often reveals blindspots and gaps in one’s knowledge. This proved to be case whe...

HOMO SAPIENS (2016, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria/Switzerland/Germany) In 2006, ruins were a tiny portion of Jia Zhang-ke's STILL...

Michelangelo Frammartino’s remarkable debut film uses an unnamed town in Calabria as an observatory to examine the metaphysical circle of l...

Group H: Spain, Switzerland, Honduras, Chile Films: The Spirit of the Beehive , A Crude Awakening , El Porvenir , Historias de fútbol ...

Switching gears for a bit to witness themes of love against culture and tradition, voyeurism, affairs, mafia crime & a tale of a boy ge...