Gerald Peary
Screenwriter-director Todd Phillips knows well what he is doing in the calculated way he escalates the bloodshed in Joker.
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How is this festival kept off the map from my US colleagues?
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This tender documentary makes an airtight case that cinema has lost a very special person.
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I happily read The Earth Dies Streaming through, all 433 pages of acute, often brilliant writing. And also often funny as hell.
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Echo in the Canyon is a sublimely moving documentary celebration of a nonpareil moment when, a half century ago, the Southern California scene boasted giants of music.
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The P-Town Fest was the site of several first-rate documentaries.
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Joanna Hogg refuses by aesthetic principle to put a lot of inflection into her scenes, steering them away from melodrama and even heated drama. As a result, some episodes are half-baked, sketchy, and flat.
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In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.
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“The world is in very bad shape, but cinema in a way is a peaceful life.” — Agnès Varda
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I saw a handful of fiction films which were well directed, capably acted, and offered meaningful stories.
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