Film
This time that we’re getting a too-sweetened take on Hasidism, and maybe of Jewish Orthodoxy in all of its manifestations.
It is not a movie for every taste; in fact, it is as close to watching paint dry as a film can get. I mean that in a good way.
A Dark Song’s terror lies in its slow, intense build and its overarching sense of doom.
From the homogeneous small town of Spettacolo, we travel to One October‘s ethnic gumbo of eight million in New York City.
The absurdist comedy Sylvio suffers from chronic low energy, but Tormenting the Hen is mysterious and magnetic.
Derek Frank’s film tells the story of radio station owner Bob Bittner, whose one-man network has generated a cult following.
Cynthia Nixon is a great Emily Dickinson, so deeply angry, so heartbreaking in her fool’s life of stoic suffering.
There are documentary films for all tastes this year.
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