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2012 Stories by Jonathan Kiefer

• Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child

  published November 21, 2012

  When the powers behind the 2010 Tel Aviv production of Hanoch Levin's Holocaust opera The Child Dreams sought a designer, it seemed like... More >>

• The Opposite of Vanishing: 'Documentaries by Shôhei Imamura'

  published November 14, 2012

  The late Japanese New Wave mainstay Shôhei Imamura said he liked his movies messy, and usually that meant seeing through civilized... More >>

• Tai Chi Zero

  published October 17, 2012

  Give some points to a genre flick whose style mash-up reflects uneasy relations between Asia and the West just as its fracas-intensive plot... More >>

• Yogawoman

  published October 17, 2012

  It'd be churlish to describe a documentary about yoga and female fortitude as agitprop, so what then? Tranquiprop? Anyway, Yogawoman... More >>

• The Thieves

  published October 10, 2012

  Easier to like than it is to follow, Choi Dong-hoon's glossy caper boasts all the pomp and cajolery of the true international blockbuster. It's... More >>

• The Paperboy

  published October 3, 2012

  Precious director Lee Daniels’s Southern Gothic noir pulp presents itself with the doubtful come-hither hospitality of a gator-filled... More >>

• Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi

  published October 3, 2012

  Sulky indie drama might not have been the best path through a story of mushroomers in a troubled marriage; that cheeky and possibly misleading... More >>

• The Waiting Room

  published September 26, 2012

  The mandate at Oakland's Highland Hospital, as one doctor says during Pete Nicks's attentive vérité portrait of the place, is to... More >>

• The Inbetweeners Movie

  published September 5, 2012

  Teen-Sex Comedies Without Borders could be an NGO, for there is something perversely hopeful in how Ben Palmer's The Inbetweeners Movie... More >>

• Hello I Must Be Going

  published September 5, 2012

  We knew from Heavenly Creatures that Kate Winslet had a bright career ahead, but in that film, Melanie Lynskey was the one to watch. Is... More >>

• ParaNorman

  published August 15, 2012

  Another handsome handcrafted charmer from Laika, the stop-motion shop that gave us Coraline, makes up for lacking its predecessor's... More >>

• True Wolf

  published August 15, 2012

  Sure to be denounced as pro-wolf propaganda, Rob Whitehair's profile of Montanan fosterers-cum-educators Bruce Weide and Pat Tucker clearly... More >>

• Ice Age: Continental Drift

  published July 11, 2012

  Geologic time might not register the mere decade that has elapsed since the first Ice Age movie, but in that interval, the... More >>