Film
Films can transform the way that their subjects are seen, sometimes by just making a subject visible. That was the case with three films which were among the best that I saw at Sundance this year.
A pair of documentaries challenge the fantasies in the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival
A trio of documentaries: one explores an under-recognized Black musician, while the other two focus on a leftist Israeli comedian and crusading teen journalists.
In his debut feature, director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel mistakes gratuitous strangeness for genuinely uncanny adventure.
This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.
My guess is that if Sundance survives, it won’t look like the Sundance we know.
There’s always a fair bit of horror in the mix, as well as thrillers and dramas. Each entry has a chilly darkness at its core — these are stories that often abound with themes of cruelty, grief, terror, and dread.
At some point during the writing of the book, Ken Turan must have realized, sadly, that the Mayer/Thalberg/MGM story has been done to death. All he could do was what he did: tell well what had been told well before.
Fascism is faced down in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece.
Arts Remembrance: The Voice of Love — On David Lynch’s Empathy
For all the accusations David Lynch faced over the supposed emotional and ironic detachment of work, his films are wellsprings of love for their subjects.
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