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Film Review: “Under the Volcano” — Island Music

August 14, 2021
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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

August 12, 2021
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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

August 9, 2021
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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

August 7, 2021
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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

August 5, 2021
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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

August 4, 2021
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The results of a Facebook contest for the Best of American Film Noir, 1940-1959

Film Review: “Stillwater” Runs Superficial

July 28, 2021
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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

July 23, 2021
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It is about time that the filmmaking industry is forced to seriously grapple with issues of sustainability.

Film Review: “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage” — Hell on Earth

July 21, 2021
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The premier entry in the HBO documentary series “Music Box” shows how everything about the concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of Woodstock goes terribly wrong, then gets worse.

Film Commentary: Dorothy Davenport — Neglected American Female Cineaste

July 21, 2021
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The Road to Ruin is a practically unknown film begging for discovery, and to be championed as a startling example of pre-Code cinema. And as a keystone for creating a directorial reputation for “Mrs. Wallace Reid.”

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