TrustMovies

Movie criticism (mostly foreign films, documentaries and independents: big Hollywood product hardly needs more marketing), very occasional interviews from James van Maanen, now 80 years old, who began his late-career movie reviewing for GreenCine, then took the big blog step over a decade ago. He covers new movies, video releases, and occasional streaming choices. You can reach him at JamesvanMaanen@gmail.com

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Pierre Godeau's DOWN BY LOVE: the old set-in-prison, forbidden-love-story told anew

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TrustMovies would guess that just about every country has its own tale -- probably many of them -- like this one (god know, the U.S. h...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

A PATCH OF FOG: Michael Lennox's Brit thriller about enforced friendship hits VOD & iTunes

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You could hardly ask for a better matched pair of sad/sleazy assholes than the two non-heroes encountered in A PATCH OF FOG , the 2015 B...
Friday, January 20, 2017

FIAF's comedy series continues with Mohamed Hamidi's mainstream ONE MAN AND HIS COW

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A movie like ONE MAN AND HIS COW ( La vache in the original French) is very nearly above (or maybe below) criticism. It means to bring...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

STAYING VERTICAL: Alain Guiraudie is back once more -- with yet another jaw-dropper

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People do the strangest things in the films of Frenchman, Alain Guiraudie , but damned if the guy doesn't make those things somehow ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Girls in prison, Iranian-style, in Mehrdad Oskouei's surprising STARLESS DREAMS

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It begins with the usual, as the perp is fingerprinted and then those "felon" photos are quickly taken, as we follow that pris...
Monday, January 16, 2017

DVDebut: Three knockout actors highlight Jason Lew's moving/flawed THE FREE W0RLD

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There is so much that is so good about THE FREE WORLD , last year's film from writer/director Jason Lew making its DVDebut tomorrow...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Sunday Corner With Lee Liberman: REBELLION -- 1916 Easter Rising and three little maids

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from Easter 1916  by W. B. Yeats  All changed,  changed utterly:  A terrible beauty  is born.  On Easter Monday 1916 with ...
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