Gerald Peary
It’s Twilight Zone eerie, as we embark on an anthology film of connected horror stories all happening on the Lost Highway.
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, provide an on-target parody in Hail, Caesar!, their funny period comedy set in ’50s Hollywood.
The best discussions are of Vertigo, with David Fincher, the most effective directorial voice of all those interviewed, leading the way.
Laurie Anderson’s abstract drawings, 8mm documentary, found footage, and scratched-on celluloid are combined in a frequently mesmerizing way.
What keeps the film churning? Not much. A bit of withheld information.
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is a winning, happy, unhappy, humane little road movie.
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is mostly a straight-ahead telling of the vivid life of the National Lampoon.
Does Meet the Patels ever go deeper than an amusing family comedy? It does for a time…
This film, written and directed by Lucie Borleteau, is not exactly feminist, nor need it be.
It’s always been fun, the best festival in North America to educate oneself with movies from foreign lands.
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