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Cinternational's
Film Forum provides a home to the most recent reviews of current
films debuting around the world from noted critics, up-and-coming
students, and other guest writers. As this site ages, please look
for a greater variety of films and writers, making this a truely
global forum!
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Debuting currently
are a variety of films, including films featured at the Toronto
Film Festival in Canada. For your viewing pleasure ...
JUNK MAIL by Pal Sletaune is a black comedy about love,
money that no one wants, cold canned spaghetti, karaoke, involuntary
good deeds, rutting and the joy of being comatose.
to
read the full review, click here!
FUNNY GAMES, Austria, 1997, directed by Michael Haneke,
depicts an apparently idyllic, upper middle class life style family
innocently beginning a respite at their lakeside summer home.
click
here for more on Funny Games!
 INSOMNIA
is a portrayal of a police inspector who becomes obsessed with the
case of a teenage girl Tanja found brutally murdered in a small
town, is the summer setting in northern Norway, when the sun never
sets. As Toronto programmer Suzanne Weiss states, (INSOMNIA)
is possibly the first film noir to take place in blazing sunlight.
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here for more!
 CONCEIVING
ADA is not a period piece by any means. Director Lynn Hershman
Leeson intertwines the past with the present by way of nothing less
than DNA strands! Ada's story is relayed by way of a contemporary
woman computer programmer who invents new digitalization functions
for the purpose of reconstructing Ada's life.
for
more on Conceiving Ada, click here!
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