Gerald Peary

Film Review: “Hail, Caesar!” — A Sharp Tinsel Town Send-up

February 11, 2016
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The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, provide an on-target parody in Hail, Caesar!, their funny period comedy set in ’50s Hollywood.

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Film Review: “Hitchcock/Truffaut” — A Mixed Homage

December 13, 2015
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The best discussions are of Vertigo, with David Fincher, the most effective directorial voice of all those interviewed, leading the way.

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Film Review: Laurie Anderson’s “Heart of a Dog”—Death, Observed

November 27, 2015
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Laurie Anderson’s abstract drawings, 8mm documentary, found footage, and scratched-on celluloid are combined in a frequently mesmerizing way.

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Film Review: “By the Sea”—Art House in Hollywood

November 11, 2015
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What keeps the film churning? Not much. A bit of withheld information.

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Film Review: “Jafar Panahi’s Taxi”—Iranian Trials and Tribulations on the Road

October 30, 2015
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Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is a winning, happy, unhappy, humane little road movie.

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Film Review: “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead”—The Rise and Fall of the National Lampoon

October 12, 2015
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is mostly a straight-ahead telling of the vivid life of the National Lampoon.

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Film Review: “Meet the Patels”—The Search for Married Bliss, The Indian Way

October 7, 2015
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Does Meet the Patels ever go deeper than an amusing family comedy? It does for a time…

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Film Review: “Fidelio: Alice’s Odyssey” — Obsessively Sexual

September 27, 2015
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This film, written and directed by Lucie Borleteau, is not exactly feminist, nor need it be.

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Film Review: The 2015 Montreal World Film Festival — Step By Step

September 12, 2015
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It’s always been fun, the best festival in North America to educate oneself with movies from foreign lands.

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Film Review: Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” — Some Existential Pleasures

August 6, 2015
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This Rhode Island-shot Woody Allen film has its pleasures: interesting actors, philosophical chitchat, an appealing academic setting.

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