“Hide and Seek” is a 2013 Korean thriller that tells the story of Sung-soo, a successful business and family man who lives in luxury in Seoul with his wife and kids. When he receives a call that states that his estranged brother is missing, his searc …Read more
In The Disobedient, Serbian Director Mina Djukic takes on the love story; probably the most popular, and most overdone subject in all of fiction, but she creates a variation that is vibrantly original. Scripted and shot based on ideas that came from …Read more
Feeling incomplete is part of being human. It might be in fact the very thing that gives us an “advantage” over the rest of the species in the animal kingdom. Because we need to fill emotional vacuums, we have gone on to create science and art, and i …Read more
In Root, Matias Rojas Valencia takes an unlikely pair of characters and sends them on a search for belonging, family and peace using the ever- grey sky, and the misty, luscious rainforests of southern Chile as a backdrop. The striking Mercedes Mujica …Read more
Somos Mari Pepa follows four teenagers in Guadalajara, Mexico as they go about their daily lives flirting with girls, riding skateboards, jamming out and simply enjoying the privileges of youth. These childhood buds form a band crudely labeled as “Ma …Read more
Carmen (Daniela Rincón) and Alfredo’s (Andrés Almeida) departure for Mexico City was supposed to be a new start, a metaphor for upward mobility for this suburban middle-class family. Indeed, Alfredo was hired as the IT guy at a bank in the capital. T …Read more
Montevideo, Uruguay- A divorced father gathers his two kids into the car in the early hours of the morning. Apparent are the varying levels of enthusiasm amongst the family member’s as they depart Uruguay’s capital city, heading out on a family vacat …Read more
The mumblecore genre has become the go-to staple for many recent independent films, made famous by the likes of directors such as Joe Swanberg and Mark Duplass. Up-and-coming New York director Adam Newport-Berra has opted for the charm of improvisati …Read more
It’s a truism in Hollywood that you can’t make a movie with a passive protagonist. Movies thrive on the illusion that we can all take charge of the situations we find ourselves in and act to change them in meaningful ways in 120 minutes. But no matte …Read more
Over the next two weekends The Museum of the Moving Image will offer a treat that every true cinephile should indulge in, they will show Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70MM! The 1968 classic won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking vis …Read more
