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Film Review: “Shirley” — Domestic Witchcraft

June 5, 2020
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Shirley is hard to watch, hard to resist, and deeply, deliciously haunting.

Film Review: “Tommaso” — A Portrait of the Messy Inner Life of an Artist

June 4, 2020
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Director/writer Abel Ferrrara, who often features character actors such as Christopher Walken and Harvey Keitel in his movies, has found a kindred spirit in Willem Dafoe.

Film Review: Want More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place? Stir-Crazy 5

June 1, 2020
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the travails of the coronavirus..

Film Review: “The High Note” — Too Many False Notes

May 28, 2020
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This is a feminist battle where all participants wear marshmallow boxing gloves.

Television Commentary: Unreeling the Newsreels in “The Plot Against America”

May 28, 2020
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Was this alternate history lesson too much of a downer for viewers weighed down by the burdens of their own unexpected rendezvous with history?

Film Commentary: Movie Love or, Seven Moments from the Ontology of the Cinematic Image

May 26, 2020
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The anti-cinema, represented by CGI, obliterates perception; it is not interested in tutoring the eye to see more deeply.

Film Review: “The Ghost of Peter Sellers” — A Riveting Postmortem

May 24, 2020
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The documentary has a “why me?” element to it, with a dark comic edge, but it isn’t a pity party.

Podcast Review: “Team Deakins” — For Film Geeks Only (and That’s not a Bad Thing)

May 23, 2020
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The podcast Team Deakins has quite a bit to teach us about the art and craft of cinematography.

Film Commentary: Drive-Ins May Save Our Sanity this Summer

May 22, 2020
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The sensory delights of drive-ins have been pretty well forgotten in an age when watching movies has meant never leaving the comfort of your living room.

Arts Remembrance: Lynn Shelton, Rising Star of Independent Film

May 20, 2020
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Lynn Shelton had developed what was becoming her own distinctive blend of comedy and drama, one that drew on strong writing, improvisation, and women characters.

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