Film
“We’ve let too many valuable creative people leave for Brooklyn, Austin, and Portland. We need to do something about that.”
Woman in Gold has novelty going for it — it is a film that depicts a woman’s passionate relationship to a piece of art.
At a mere 1 hour and 34 minutes, Chuck Workman’s documentary about Orson Welles is rushed and sometimes choppy, leaping through the filmmaker’s bountiful life.
When no-one was looking, Ian MacKaye and a group of young people like him created one of American alternative music’s most important and unique scenes.
The Zellner brothers’ excellent film is inspired by a Japanese urban legend of a young woman who came to America supposedly because of Fargo, and then committed suicide in the snows.
Winter Sleep is not the cinematic masterpiece so many have been hailing it to be.
The puckish, irrepressible personality of James Randi — magician, escape artist, debunker of seers, psychics, and all things paranormal — is at the zesty heart of this memorable documentary.
If these efforts are representative of Icelandic cinema, it is time for movie lovers to start paying much closer attention.
One leaves History of Fear feeling that the director wants to stir up our anxiety about the omnipresence of fear itself.
Written and directed by feature film newcomer Matais Lucchesi, Natural Sciences is a cautionary tale: be careful what you wish for.
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