Film Reviews by David Walsh, WSWS Arts Editor
The Life of Pi: In a lifeboat alone with a tiger
By David Walsh, December 15, 2012
The new film directed by Taiwanese-born Ang Lee is based on a 2001 novel—winner of the Booker Prize—by Canadian author Yann Martel.
Flight: A pilot saves the day, but not himself
By David Walsh, November 10, 2012
In Flight Denzel Washington plays Whip Whitaker, a highly skilled pilot with a serious drinking and drug problem, who becomes a hero when he averts a plane crash. However …
Cloud Atlas: Six stories in search of a genuine connection
By David Walsh, November 2, 2012
German director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, Heaven) and Andy and Lana Wachowski, responsible for the Matrix films, have teamed up to adapt David Mitchell’s 2004 novel, Cloud Atlas, for the screen.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 6
Interviews with five filmmakers about life and art in India, Ivory Coast, Guatemala, Angola and Haiti
By David Walsh, October 9, 2012
A good many honest and intriguing films screened at the recent Toronto film festival. The WSWS interviewed a number of directors about their films and the conditions in their respective countries.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Interviews with John Gianvito, Minda Martin and Travis Wilkerson—co-directors of Far From Afghanistan
By David Walsh, October 2, 2012
The WSWS spoke to three of the five directors of Far From Afghanistan.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 4
Far From Afghanistan: Significant, moving, uneven
By David Walsh, October 2, 2012
Far From Afghanistan is an effort by five US directors to come to terms with the decade-long Afghanistan war and its implications for both the Afghan and American populations.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012
An interview with Mahdi Fleifel and Patrick Campbell, director and co-producer of A World Not Ours
By David Walsh, September 26, 2012
The WSWS spoke to Mahdi Fleifel, writer and director of A World Not Ours and Patrick Campbell, co-producer (along with Fleifel) of the film, during the recent Toronto film festival.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 2
A World Not Ours: Where do the Palestinians go from here?
By David Walsh, September 26, 2012
Mahdi Fleifel’s A World Not Ours, one of the most remarkable films presented at the Toronto festival this year, is both a personal memoir and a tracing out of the Palestinian history and condition.
Toronto International Film Festival 2012—Part 1
The wide range of human passion, action and adventure
By David Walsh, September 22, 2012
The Toronto International Film Festival screened some 372 films this year from 72 countries. This year’s festival and the general state of the film world present a sharper contradiction than ever.
In The Campaign, a fictional race for Congress
By David Walsh, August 17, 2012
In Jay Roach’s film, an incumbent Democratic member of Congress finds himself opposed by a local oddball, backed by a pair of evil billionaire brothers.
The US media responds with hostility to this year’s Academy Awards show
By David Walsh, March 2, 2012
A number of US media critics have attacked this year’s Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles with such venom that it invites a second look.
The 2012 Academy Awards
By David Walsh, February 28, 2012
At the 84th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday in Los Angeles, The Artist and Hugo took home the most awards. Comic Billy Crystal hosted the event.
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