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Tim Jackson

Film Review: “The White Tiger” — Class Warfare, Indian Style

This is a wicked and entertaining satire on the dizzying class conflicts roiling Indian society, a neo-Marxist story of masters and servants, money and corruption — a Horatio Alger tale with a devilish twist.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Aravind Adiga, Ramin Bahrani, The White Tiger

Film Review: “Sound of Metal” — A Test of Character

To Sound of Metal’s credit, the narrative remains open-ended, refusing to descend into a predictable “Hollywood” story of triumph over adversity.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Darius Marder, Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal, Tim Jackson

Book Review: “The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock”  — The Art of Doing Nothing, Well

Dan Callahan has crafted an entertaining and illuminating guide to understanding Hitchcock’s relationship with some of the most iconic actors of the day.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alfred-Hitchcock, Dan Callahan, The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock

Film Review: “White Noise: Inside the Racist Right” — Planting the Seeds

White Noise is neither a polemic nor an exercise in agitprop: it is a journey into the dark center of a reprehensible movement that is growing more vocal every day.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Daniel Lombros, Lauren Southern, Mike Cernovich, Richard Spencer, White Noise

Film Review: “On the Rocks” — Snooping Among the Upper Class

Sofia Coppola’s flawed characters are part of the real world, engaged in authentic relationships struggling with universal dilemmas.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Sofia Coppola, Sophia Coppola

Book Review: Filmmaker Werner Herzog — On the Hunt for the Ecstatic Truth

This thoughtful study offers a worthwhile critical perspective on Werner Herzog, one of the world’s great living film artists.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Joshua Lund., Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog

Film Review: “Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful” — Naughty or Nice?

In this documentary, the photographer and his art are not so much defended as explained through the voices of the world’s top models and movie icons with whom he worked.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Gero von Boehm, Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautifu, Photography

Film Review: “The Painted Bird” — A Memorable Vision of the Worst That Can Be Imagined

The Painted Bird is a coming-of-age story populated by the worst of humankind.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Holocaust, Jerzy Kosiński, Petr Kotlár, The Painted Bird, Václav Marhoul, World War II

Recommendations in Black Cinema

“Black is beautiful. Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’. — Bookstore owner Lewis H. Michaux from Black Power Mixtape Once the Black Lives Matter demonstrations began, lists of […]

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Uncategorized

Recommended Video Film Essays

Some of the of best sites amusing, scholarly, and entertaining video-essays. NELSON CARVAJAL – Written by s creative longtime video-essayist DAVID BROADWELL – Broadwell is a prolific author and critic of film and film history. This an extremely through site with videos and essays: an entire education FANDOR – Fandor maintains an excellent YouTube site. […]

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Uncategorized

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