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CRAZED FRUIT -- Kurutta Kajitsu, 1956. (狂った果実)
Spending their summer on a trendy exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for -- winding up in Murder by Motorboat!
A small postwar Japanese Masterpiece -- Perfection!
"Kurutta Kajitsu" (狂った果実 ). 1956, is a landmark of Japanese cinema that has more to say about postwar Japan and mid fifties movie...
The Theory of Everything (2014) A Stephen Hawking Biopic.
A Lush Baroque Love Story Turns into a Medical Nightmare --
Alex Deleon, filmfestivals.com
A Theory of Almost Everything-- or Cosmology for Beginners. Viewed at MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris, January 26, 2015. This fervent quasi religious hagiography starts out as a tender saccharine love story in Cambridge,1963, but soon segues into a Medical Horror picture. It ultimately became an ordeal to sit through because h...
GOLDEN APRICOT YEREVAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 9 — 16 July 2023.
by Alex Deleon Filmfestivals.com
Looking back at the 20th GAIFF Golden Apricot film festival I can say that the most interesting person I met here was Brigitte Leloire Kerackian, Armenian French journalist from Lyon France. I was surprised to find that Brigitte shares my interest in Indian cinema, especially the Bollywood cinema, and has done ex...
By Alex Deleon for filmfestivals.com
The Golden Apricot Film Festival, now in its twentieth year, always tends to spotlight films from countries in the region which are not likely to get much exposure at other festivals. This, in addition, of course, to a wide selection of other films from around the world and prize winners from top festivals such as Cannes and Venice.
On Bastille Day, July 14th, I caught up with two off-beat Georgian features a...
By Alex Deleon for filmfestivals.com
The Golden Apricot Film Festival, now in its twentieth year, always tends to spotlight films from countries in the region which are not likely to get much exposure at other festivals. This, in addition, of course, to a wide selection of other films from around the world and prize winners from top festivals such as Cannes and Venice.
On Bastille Day, July 14th, I caught up with two off-beat Georgian features a...
2023 Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan runs July 9 – 16, 2023
By Alex Deleon for Filmfestivals.com
Takeshi Kirano at the height of "beatness" in "Violent Cop", 1989
Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947), better known as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi) in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker.
The nickname "beat" which he adopted as...
By Alex Deleon
The 20th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival will take place from July 9th to 17th this year. As always, the festival will present films from different countries around the world in the competition sections, including films from prestigious film festivals such as Cannes and Berlin. World cinema artists will come to Armenia to share their experiences and art with cinema lovers.
This year, "Golden Apricot" celebrates its 20th anniversary, coinci...
All About Eve (1950) The Divine Bette Davis at her peak -- Fasten your seatbelt ...
By Alex Deleon.
An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends -- and DOES she ever!!' Viewed at the Berlin Film Festival, 2010. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Writer: Mankiewicz,written for the screen by the director himself. Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, wit...
By Alex Deleon
Leading Israeli filmmaker, Nadav Lapid (47) has touched off a gigantic controversy in India with critical remarks over the Bollywood entry, "The Kashmir Files" at the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which ended on November 28 in the resort city
of Goa.
Lapidus presided over the jury and made his remarks at the closing ceremony describing the already contentious film as "vulgar propaganda" &n...
"Review by Alex Deleon
"Aurora's Sunrise": a Genocide documentary with animation, was the sensation and the discovery of the 2022 Golden Apricot film festival in Yerevan. More than a genocide tale, it is one of the long suppression and eventual resurrection of the life and testimony of an indomitable genocide survivor, Aurora Mardiganian (a.k.a Arshaluys Mardigian) , who lived to retell her tale at age 83, when an Armenian American scholar f...
by Alex Deleon for Filmfestivals.com
Nineteeth Golden Apricot Reviews "The Forgotten Homeland"
A Documentary film by Egyptian director, Essam Nagy. was the main event of the first full day of the festival. The subject was the aftereffects of the 2020 Artsakhh War between Armenia and Azerbaijan
World Premiere.
A shocker to end all shockers.
The full house audience at the Moskva Theater Red Hall was transfixed.
I was...
Golden Apricot Reports -- July 10-17, Yerevan
by Alex Deleon
The film poster shows a man standing in a Storks nest gazing out at the holy Mount Ararat in the distance, and perhaps beyond to the Diaspora. In Armenia storks are a symbol of the Diaspora because they always come back home no matter how far they have flown ...
AMERIKATSI means "The American " in Armenian and it was the prestige Opening Film ...
19th Golden Apricot Film Festival Reviews, Yerevan, 2022 YOL, The Full Version, restored and expanded raises festival consciousness.
By Alex Deleon for filmfestivals.com
Freshly minted and fully packed to stir the soul!
The Turkish film YOL (The Way) caused quite a stir when it was "rescued from prison" and presented at the 1982 Cannes film festival where it shared the top prize, the Palme d...
Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) INDIA, Guru Dutt Classic
Citizen Kane comes to India -- A masterpiece by Guru Dutt
By Alex Deleon
वक़्त ने किया क्या हसीं सितम
तुम रहे न तुम हम रहे न हम
वक़्त ने किया क्या हसीं सितम
तुम रहे न तुम ह...
Golden Apricot Reviews: "A Hero", Iranian, 2021, directed by Asghar Farhadi
by Alex Delonian Filmrestivals.com
Asghar is a past master of the shaggy dog story that makes mountains out of mole hills yet manages to maintain interest. He is also very good at getting the best out of his actors. The so-called hero of this film is Rahim Soltani who is in and out of jail on debtors charges for failure to pa...
By Alex Deleon, filmfestivals.com
Evolucion, director Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary..
A stifling regurgitation of all the atrocities perpetrated upon the Jews in the concentration camps and elsewhere, as told by a bitter aging Hungarian mother to her unreceptive daughter.
The mother was born in Auschwitz and somehow survived to tell the tale.
The daughter who would rather forget the Holocaust doesn't really want to hear all this, but the mother d...
By Alex Deleon, Yerevan
"Maro's Secret", at Moskva Theater Red Hall: director Alejandro Magnone starring the amazing Norma Aleandro, age 85.
This actress is truly truly truly amazing!
Rarely does the first film you see at a festival make such an impression that you feel your festival is made right there, even if you don't see another picture.
That was my reaction yesterday to the unheralded Argentine drama "Maro's Secret" starr...
By Alex Deleon
Dilip Kumar, one of Bollywood’s most revered actors has died. The Indian actor died Wednesday ,July 7, in a hospital in Mumbai after a long illness. He was 98.
Kumar was known as the “Tragedy King.” because of the many heartbroken lovers he portrayed, which became his calling card during the Golden age of Hindi cinema.
His active career spanned five decades from 1944 to 1998 during which. time he appeared in over 160 films. Among ...
After being canceled last year because of the Covid pandemic Yerevan's unique Golden Apricot film festival is back in action. The 18th edition of this Armenian festival has been moved back this year from its usual midsummer slot to the current early autumn time frame. The traditional guest of honor this year is senior Hollywood director Paul Schrader, now 75, with nineteen directed feature films behind him.
Schrader started out as a film critic and screenwriter. His study of J...
By Alex Deleon
The full scale revival of the Karlovy Vary film festival is an encouaging sign that the end of the Covid era may soon be in sight. Delayed only a month from its usual early to mid July slot the 55th edition is in full swing with a healthy turnout of fans and celebrities.
Guests wore COVID-safe wrist bands after having presented proof of vaccine status on arrival, but few masks were in sight in the fully packed hall at the opening ceremony
High profile...
By Alex Deleon, flying film cynic
As far as VIP visitors are concerned, some pretty big names can turn up in some pretty peculiar places, as long as their schedules permit, the deal is made sweet (for example by offering a “Lifetime Career Award”), and the destination in question happens to be a spot on the planet which the celebrity in question may be interested in seeing, just for the helluvit.
So, for example, Harvey Keitel turns up i...
It's still the same old story ...
Casablanca.
The story of a hot love affair with badly crossed wires.
Rick Blaine, an American adventurer (H. Bogart) is hanging out in Paris after the Spanish Civil war and carrying on a hot and heavy love affair with Lisa, a central European refugee from the German occupation of her country. She is a stunning beauty. (Ingrid Bergman).
When the Germans blitz France out of action , Rick and Lisa agree to mee...
By Alex Deleon
Some actors never die, they just pass away to a higher realm.
The ultimate incarnation of James Bond, double 0'Seven, has cashed in his chips here down below, but in cinema heaven he will reign forever as the coolest of the cool with a License to Kill, but only bad guys, which he did flawlessly in half a dozen of the best romantic action films ever made.
Several other ac...
Staying safe at the movie with Spielberg.
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By Alex Deleon
Just watched one of the greatest of all Russian films -- On Russian TV, One of the very best. Ballad of a Soldier. World War II. Black and white masterpiece.
I saw it only when it first came out in 1959 But it made such a tremendous impression on me that still remembered many scenes all these years later.
Years later in Manila I was at the same dinner table with director Grigori Bondarchuk and we had a fine conversation -- that was 1983,...
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