Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

"Babel" director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is back in Japan, a nation he says has long fascinated him — this time, as head of the jury of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Like Inarritu's native Mexico, Japan has both the tradition of storytelling and the energy of a defiant avant-garde, he told reporters Monday. On his past experiences working in Japan, he said, "I wanted to shoot everything. The exercise I had was to restrain myself." Fifteen films are competing at the festival. Inarritu said the jury had just begun to watch them and had no comment on the prospects. "Babel," the 2006 release which ... Read Full Story

It's nearly ten years since a little Mexican film, by a first time director, caused shock waves and ripples across the cine world. Not only did it become a world wide hit but it bridged the divide between art house favourite and mainstream approval. Britt Parrott, of the astounding film site Perhapses ; the man quotes Neitzsche , enough said, takes a fresh look at the directoral debut of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ameros Perros, and concludes that it doesn't exactly hold up all these years later. I would imagine it is difficult, as a first-time director coming off a long shoot, to go into ... Read Full Story

"Babel" director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will head the competition jury at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October. Organizers named the Mexican filmmaker the jury president in a statement on their official Web site. The 21st edition of the film festival is scheduled for Oct. 18-26. Inarritu was quoted as saying he was honored by the appointment because "Japan's culture and film traditions have had a personal impact on me and inspire in me respect and admiration." The former sailor and DJ made his film debut with the 2000 release "Amores Perros." The story of four Mexico City residents who cross paths in a ... Read Full Story

Here we have three stories, one is a man who is in point to die, Paul Rivers ( Sean Penn ). A woman, Cristina Peck ( Naomi Watts ) that her husband and daughters died knocking down by a car . And an ex convict, Jack Jordan( Benicio del Toro ), who became a christ fan and make lot of mistakes without blame. Those stories connect one each other with the car accident caused by Jack, who drive like a crazy and crash with Michael Peck( Danny Huston ), Cristina’s husband, killing him and his daughters… Paul is dying and need a heart to ... Read Full Story

By itself, the entire plot and story of Babel probably don't make for really interesting reading. Added to this is the fact that this is probably one movie which I will really find hard to review considering the deftness with which it has been made. For lack of a simpler term to explain the screenplay, I will restrict myself to describing it as 'multi-linear' with a qualification of 'multi-chronological' thrown in. Just to describe these terms further, when I say 'multi-linear' I am referring to a screenplay which does not deal with just one story at one time, and 'multi-chronological' is used to refer ... Read Full Story