The Noir City Festival has now come of age and the 21st edition which opened at the venerable Hollywood landmark Egyptian Theatre on Friday, March 29, 2019,  will this year display twenty uncut gems...

Hend Rostom and Youssef Chahine as Qenawi in "Cairo Station"   Youssef Chahine (1926-2008) was the leading Egyptian film director all through the second half of Twentieth Century active in the...

  Viewed at Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, during film noir week. Another Ladd wartime programmer is "Calcutta" with always dependable beefy support from William Bendix. In this one both are military...

By Alex Deleon Just back from seeing VICE with a couple of friends. Viewed at Cinestar multiplex, Berlin. This is not a review but just some immediate reactions. In short, over long, drawn out,...

By Alex Deleon   A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour  through the 1960s Jim Crow American South. After a string of weak...

By Alex Deleon Tais-toi et sois belle ~ Shut up and look pretty, viewed on Awards night at Kino Arsenal 1. Not to be confused with a 1958 French feature film of the same name, which, in fact had me...

Chaplin's Limelight I have never liked Chaplin's early silent films because I found his "loveable tramp" character more grotesque than amusing. Guess that makes me part of a vanishing minority....

Rami Malek is the insider favorite for Best Actor on Oscar night   Finally caught it at a sold out Friday night showing (November 18) in Budapest where I lucked out and got the very last ticket....

The awards ceremony and closing gala was held on Saturday night but Sunday was a festival bonus day with many repeat screenings to help harried film fans catch up on some entries they might have...

Peter  Greenaway                                  Alex Erekle Leonadze  <filmfestivals.com>   Day four was marked by personal appearances on the stage of the great hall of the Amirani Theater by...