PSIFF 2016

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    45 years

    In the same vein as the previous post, I am catching up with films from 2016 PSIFF that I missed.  And since I really miss seeing Lauren Bacall, I wanted to see Charlotte Rampling her latest version, at least in my…

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    Michael Moore Invades – sort off

    Now that the Film Festival is over, there's nothing to do but to catch up on the films I missed that are being release. It’s been  seven years since Capitalism: A Love Story. But Mr. Moore returns, just in time…

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    PSIFF 2016 – and the winners are

    27th ANNUAL PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FESTIVAL WINNERS Labyrinth of Lies and Everything is Copy Receive Mercedes-Benz Audience Awards The Assassin Receives FIPRESCI Prize; Alena Mihulová, Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Theodór Júlíusson Receive Acting Prizes; Death By Death Receives…

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    PSIFF 2016 – Days 7-9 (8 films)

    17 was "A Grain of Truth" from Poland. In a fast paced, well edited film, a prosecutor Teodor Szacki, no longer in Warsaw, starts a new life in the picturesque medieval town of Sandomierz, an area from the conservative SE Poland with…

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    PSIFF 2016 – Days 5 & 6 (five films)

    Film 12 was "The Assassin" from Taiwan - if you're thinking another Chinese Kung Fu western, you would be almost there, except for the magnificent scenery and sets shot and shown in 35mm. In 9th-century China, during a time of political…

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    PSIFF 2016 – Days 3 and 4 (5 Films)

    Day Three had two 2 hour Films.  Film 7 from India was the director's first "THITHI":  In a tiny village in South India, no passerby is spared 101-year-old Century Gowda’s verbal abuse. When he finally pauses to catch his breath,…

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    PSIFF 2016 – day two (Three films)

    Film 4 from Netherlands "Schneider vs. Bax":  Since I liked  Borgman, PSIFF2013, by Alex van Warmerdam, I had to see this one. The intended victim, Bax, is a middle-aged novelist living in a secluded lakeside cabin out in the marshes. But…

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    2016 PSIFF: first day (3 films)

    First film from Sweden at 11:20 am: "A pigeon Sat on a Branch in Search of Existence."  How can you not see a film with that title? This is what the festival said: "It’s safe to say that no one…