Californian writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s feature debut (best director, Edinburgh, Sundance), Sin Nombre—The Nameless—signals by its title that its two teenaged protagonists, northward-bound from Central America to the States on a hopped freight train, represent countless others. Sayra (Paulina Gaitan) is from Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Willy (Edgar Flores, trenchant), from Tapachula, Mexico. Willy, whose gang nickname […]
Daily Archives: September 2, 2009
Reduced to two hours from a six-hour BBC mini-series and relocated to the U.S., Kevin Macdonald’s breezy State of Play is an odd film, to say the least. Unabashedly message-mongering (in favor of old-style print media professional integrity—a myth), it is so tricked up with twists and turns of plot that it all but loses […]
Dennis Grunes 