David D'Arcy
Extensive and eclectic, DOC NYC is a sampling of documentary films for the coming year. These favorites are worth searching out.
A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.
Three powerful films at NYFF about violence, survival, and revenge.
“Nuns vs. The Vatican” prepares its audience for an ongoing story that is expanding each time one more victim agrees to talk publicly. Do not doubt that there will be a sequel.
A trio of political films at TIFF — ranging from tragedy to farce.
Two outstanding films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival — “The Tale of Silyan” and “Wrong Husband”
There is a moral to this story, besides the obvious one, that murder is a horrible crime whether the body is found or not. If there are wealthy women with weaknesses to exploit, predators will find them.
If life among these four characters risks being so monotonous over the course of an hour and 45 minutes, just imagine what it must have been like to endure months of lockdown before a vaccine became available.
This impressive show of more than 32 works concentrates on what Isamu Noguchi could do with stone, sometimes just leaving it in abstract forms, either raw or polished, often imagining it (and cutting it) into what were meant to be essential shapes.
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