What’s on the screen rings true, but Fire Music falls short of being fair to history.
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Film Review: “Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time” — And Remember, Take Care of Yourself
Evangelion is my personal Rosetta Stone, allowing me to decipher everything from psychoanalytic theory and gender relations to my very own understanding of trauma and the world in which I inhabit.
Film Review: “Under the Volcano” — Island Music
Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in Montserrat gave birth to some great ’80s music, then succumbed to the elements.
Film Interview: “Searching for Mr. Rugoff” — A Passion for Independent Cinema
A documentary about a “crazy genius,” theater owner and film distributor Donald Rugoff, a difficult but insatiable P.T. Barnum-like impresario whose storied rise and tragic fall in the movie business has been overlooked.
Film Review: “The Green Knight” – Of Vanity, and Verdigris
Filmmaker David Lowery plumbs the depths of this ancient tale, discovering the places where the human and the otherworldly intersect, where the earthbound meets the ethereal.
Film Review: “The Green Knight” — An Art-House Medieval Drama
Is what we see real or in the spirit world? Whatever, I cheer on filmmaker David Lowery’s luminous time-traveling. Pure cinema poetry.
Film Review: “Annette” — A Rock Opera That Goes Backward in Order to Go Forward
I want to gird you, readers, for the insanity and beauty of Annette
Film Feature: Best of American Film Noir, 1940-1959 — An International Poll
The results of a Facebook contest for the Best of American Film Noir, 1940-1959
Film Review: “Stillwater” Runs Superficial
The irony is that this effort, surely not the last, of Hollywood reaching out to the “solid” citizens of Trump’s America will only alienate them further.
Film Commentary: Time to Reduce Filmmaking’s Carbon Footprint
It is about time that the filmmaking industry is forced to seriously grapple with issues of sustainability.