Peter Keough

Film Review: “Perfect Days” — Plumbing the Depths

February 24, 2024
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In his latest feature, filmmaker Wim Wenders extols the simple life.

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Film Review: “Drive-Away Dolls” — Bum Trip

February 21, 2024
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“Drive-Away Dolls” is the worst Coen brother movie ever made.

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Film Review: “Io Capitano” — When You Wish Upon a Star?

February 19, 2024
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The plight of refugees is given a fairy-tale treatment in “Io Capitano.”

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Film Review: “Orion and the Dark” — The Big Blackout

January 29, 2024
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Screenwriter, film director, and novelist Charlie Kaufman tries to lighten up in “Orion and the Dark”.

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Doc Talk: Racism and the Race to the White House

January 24, 2024
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Two PBS documentaries paint a grim picture of the American soul.

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Doc Talk: Childhood Lost and Found in “Anselm”

January 6, 2024
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This is a magnificent 3D documentary about the thought and work of the acclaimed German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.

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Film Interview: Director Wim Wenders Talks About Reinventing Filmmaking

December 31, 2023
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Director Wim Wenders discusses two new films about art and toilets.

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Film Review: In “Poor Things,” Pathos Gives Way to Pizzazz

December 18, 2023
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“Poor Things” is a film in which the set designers are as much the auteurs as the director, to the detriment of the pathos that is at the heart of Alasdair Gray’s novel.

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Film Review: Misplaced Accents Almost Undermine “Eileen”

December 12, 2023
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Like the novel it is based on, “Eileen” eventually becomes a morally ambiguous, and twisted, noirish mystery.

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Arts Commentary: Perceptions of Putin –“The Wizard” and What Lies Behind the Curtain

November 20, 2023
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How well “The Wizard of the Kremlin” will be received here is an interesting question, especially when the novel is evaluated in the light of Mstyslav Chernov’s visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.”

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