FILMbutton Newletter Reviews

FILMbutton Newsletter Review – M*A*S*H

by shael stolberg for FILMbuttton What can you say about M*A*S*H? What can you say about Robert Altman? What can you say about Ring Lardner, Jr? It would be very simplistic to say one was a film, the other a director and the latter a screenwriter. A more realistic statement could be that one is […]

FILMbutton Newsletter Review – DAVID

by marion schreiber for FILMbutton DAVID a film by Joe Fendelman, is an authentic and very natural film about the Muslim & Jewish communities but not only. Since the first images, we enter in a little boy’s life (Daud) with an angel face looking with admiration (or wonder) at his father praying. We share his […]

FILMbutton Newsletter Review – Week 27 – GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA

by shael stolberg for FILMbutton Art is the opposite of Democracy By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over. All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. I never miss a chance […]

FILMbutton Newsletter Review – La Bare

by marion schreiber for FILMbutton La Bare a world of parties, sparkles but more a story of a big family! The story happens at the La Bare club,the most popular club of male dancers in Dallas, a club for women who want to relax, to have an experience of desire or just to feel beautiful […]

FILMbutton Newletter – Week 24 – The Animal Project

by john davidson for FILMbutton The first thing you need to know about director Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project is that the hugs are free. And if free hugs sound good to you right about now, then seek out this new Canadian Indie gem and start feeling the love yourself. Aaron Poole stars in this […]

FILMbutton Friday Review – Elena

by marion schreiber for FILMbutton Best Documentary Audience Award, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Art Direction at the 45th Brasilia Film Festival in Documentary Category Elena is a film about her life, Petra Costa’s life and the relationship that she had (has) with her sister. It’s a family portrait which tells Elena’s life through her […]