Author Archives: basiltsiokos

Coming to NYC’s IFC Center tomorrow, Friday, April 15: ARMADILLO

My praise for Janus Metz’s complex, harrowing portrait of a platoon of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan may be found in my roundup from last year’s Toronto here.

Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 12: I’M DANGEROUS WITH LOVE

My thoughts on Michel Negroponte’s provocative profile of a former addict turned experimental rehab mentor can be found here.

Coming to DVD next Tuesday, April 12: MARWENCOL

Regular readers of this blog already know how big of a fan I am of Jeff Malmberg’s portrait of Mark Hogancamp and the titular 1/6th scale WWII era Belgian village that has come to life in his backyard. Take a look at my thoughts here. Pick this one up – you’ll be glad you did.

Opening in NYC for an exclusive one-week run at the Maysles Cinema tomorrow, April 8: KATI WITH AN I

Robert Greene’s compelling and intimate look at a few days in a teenage girl’s life premiered at the last year’s True/False Film Festival and later screened at the inaugural DOC NYC. It went on to be very appropriately nominated as one of the Best Films Not Playing at a Theatre Near You in the 2010 Gotham Awards. I wrote about the film in my coverage of True/False for indieWIRE, saying:

In many ways both a universal and a singular portrait of an adolescent woman’s life, director Greene deftly reveals a handful of ordinary yet pivotal days at the end of his half-sister’s high school senior year. While on the surface, there doesn’t immediately appear to be much that distinguishes Kati from your typical teenager, that’s partially the point – she stands in as an everywoman, or everygirl, as she begins, naively at times, to make the transition from late childhood to early adulthood, not fully foreseeing the consequences of her decisions.

Join director Robert Greene for a Q&A after tomorrow’s screening, and producers Susan Bedusa, Douglas Tirola, and Sean Price Williams for a Q&A after the Monday, April 11 screening.