Film
Cinema lovers with a taste for the exotic and a tolerance for narrative loose ends should take advantage of the re-emergence, via 4k digital makeover, of “Queen Kelly”.
Both films are intermittently entertaining and display a high level of craft. They’re also blithely mediocre: mainly flash and filigree, vacuous at their center.
For a piercing reflection of the times, turn to the Oscars’ Best Documentary categories, in particular, the Best Documentary Shorts.
We’ve lost some fantastic actors in the last few months. Tom Noonan was one of them. He was singularly talented, and unique, and leaves behind a remarkable legacy of good work. Seek it out.
Director Hlynur Pálmason’s latest is an ambitious, artful, but half-baked bagatelle.
To watch a Frederick Wiseman documentary is to see a subject or topic through the filmmaker’s eyes.
The intention isn’t to provoke, eroticize, or sexually titillate. Devoid of the kinds of melodramatics that play into the fujoshi fantasy that’s all the rage right now, “Pillion” is a film about fetishes that never fetishizes its subject matter to placate an outsider’s gaze.
With its briskly intoxicating style, narrative aplomb, and masterful performances, this film transforms pulpy material into a gripping entertainment with a satisfying, social justice subtext.
Directors Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli indulge in a few too many changes of tone, but their film offers a pleasantly oddball romance.
A trio of illuminating documentaries, their topics ranging from the struggles of a local newspaper to the days of public access cable television in New York City.
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