Tim Jackson

Fuse Film Review: The 2014 Provincetown International Film Festival — A Sampling

June 26, 2014
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Alive Inside, the winner for Best Documentary at the Festival, had the audience gasping and in tears.

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Film Review: “Ida” — A Masterful Meditation on Fate and Circumstance

June 16, 2014
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Ida proffers a cinematic experience that is austere and mesmerizing.

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Film Review: “What is Cinema?” — An Inspirational Documentary about the Power of the Movies

June 6, 2014
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The clips from both experimental and commercial cinema play well against the interviews from a group directors who are known for pushing boundaries.

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Film Review: Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Warmed-Over “Dance of Reality”

June 3, 2014
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Director Alejandro Jodorowsky is a fascinating artist, but this rehash of his own Dadaesque style is lurid, stale, and simplistic.

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Film Review: A Deliciously Prepared “Chef”

May 16, 2014
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In Chef, the preparation of delicious food becomes a metaphor for a quest for meaningful life and love.

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Film Reviews: Flesh and Fantasy in the Art House

April 26, 2014
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Two new films take a poetic and fantastical look at the artifice of sensual surfaces to imagine the horrific realities beneath.

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Fuse Film Review: “Anita” — Anita Hill’s Story For A New Generation

April 5, 2014
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Anita Hill’s struggle is an essential piece of modern cultural and political history that remains painfully relevant.

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Film Review: Lars Von Trier’s Nifty “Nymphomaniac: Volume 1”

March 20, 2014
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What makes Lars von Trier one of cinema’s most fascinating directors? It is his willingness to pull out the stops in a riotous search to understand his own mind and ask questions about human nature. His films are a quest to find himself.

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Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel — A Deliriously Eccentric Adventure Story

March 7, 2014
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Director Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” presents a frenzied feast of lavish and preposterous set pieces, performances, and tall tales.

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New York Theater Round Up: “Intimacy,” “Stage Kiss,” and “Love and Information”

February 28, 2014
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A trio of superb off Broadway plays explore the complicated faces of love and lust — from the seamy to the sublime.

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