Film
Why, when finally caught, didn’t mark Landis land in jail? Here’s the rub. He was a consummate liar and a big-time deceiver but he’s never committed a jailable crime.
The good parts of The Judge make the its missteps more painful to watch.
Director David Fincher does a good job at making our skin crawl while we chuckle at the audacity of the goings-ons in Gone Girl.
The excellent E-Team documents a remarkable effort to investigate the abuse of human rights, an endeavor that, for the most part, goes unheralded in our mainstream media.
Playwright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.
Contextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.
The most striking part of The Better Angels is its cinematography. The naked branches on the thick, gray trees are silhouetted against a sky that seems unable to hold sunlight.
“The music itself is quite Gothic. It’s about murder, and death, and God, not all toe tapping stuff.”
Two new documentaries: one a love story about two athletes, the other an attempt to chronicle a small resistance movement among German students against the Nazis.
The highest praise for the way the great cinematographer Bridger Nielson has lit the film’s haunted house..
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