Into the woods, with French movie-thriller ‘Misericordia’
It’s no news to anyone — we’ve known it since “Hansel & Gretel.” Bad things happen in the woods. To prove that that essential truth has gone unchanged since the days of Grimm’s fairy-tales, the woods are the chosen terrain in which auteur Alain Guiraudie stages the central plot turn of his latest movie, Misericordia ...
Best of 2013 yet to play in Los Angeles
After December’s endless ‘best-of-2013’ lists (our own list here!) and January’s blitz of stories previewing upcoming 2014 movies, it may be useful to consider the movie universe from a different angle. What interesting movies premiered elsewhere in the world in 2013, but haven’t yet screened or opened to the public in Los Angeles? The answer ...