Film
With an eclectic visual style that includes animation, and narration spoken with conviction by D.C. native Henry Rollins, The Legend of Cool “Disco” Dan tries to accentuate the positive.
Oy gevalt! What a disappointment!
I guess that’s the point. We all need to slow down, go back into nature, appreciate animal life, take long walks in the forest and in the mountains.
We’ve heard all these gripes before, in life, in books, on TV, and in piles of movies. But Kathryn Hahn, is so enthralling and right that Rachel’s alienation, her poor little rich girl suffering, feel harsh and real.
While it has its highlights, The Family limits our frame of reference to other movies, rather than anything resembling real life.
UPDATE: “Secundaria” will screen this Friday as part of BU’s Cinematheque series on Friday, September 13, 7 p.m. Boston University,
Terraferma is well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.
Musician Levon Helm’s folksy ideas about life, the anecdotes he shares, his reverence for American music and for the friends and comrades who gather around him, are inspirational.
With a good critic like Peter Rainer, the opinion itself is the least interesting part of the review. It’s the contextualizing of the opinion. And the choice of words on paper.
The documentary was originally screened at South by Southwest in 2010 while Levon Helm was still alive, but with his death from cancer in 2012, the film now serves as a heartfelt tribute to a true American original.
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