Film
Faced with the bizarre evolution of John Lilly’s life and ideas, the directors were wise to refrain from sensationalism.
A pair of eminent lives — celebrated.
This is pure cinema, unpretentious, rough-hewn, mystical, conjured from the earth, offered up at the forest altar of whatever flesh-and-blood gods are still listening.
This year’s Berlin International Film Festival was nothing if not political.
AIDS made us strangers in our own lives. It took our world and made it foreign, putting us in the same socio-cultural no-man’s-land where “Alpha”‘s immigrant family is struggling.
The narrative is filled with secrets and mysteries that tease and fade away — and the deepest mysteries lie within that basic social unit, the family.
The world almost makes sense at this year’s Salem Film Fest.
The hefty volume is consistently engaging and informative — a lively, visually appealing guide to one of cinema’s most formidable careers.
The documentary tries, perhaps a bit too hard, to turn the Grim Reaper into the Grin Reaper.
“Project Hail Mary” is an antidote to dystopias, real and imagined.
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