Film

Arts Appreciation — Jerry Lewis, A Comic Actor of Glorious Contradictions

August 21, 2017
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We’re losing Lewis’s generation of Depression-bred, Borscht Belt-weaned entertainers with their un-ironic neediness for laughs and their canny way of getting them.

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Film Review: “The Trip to Spain” — Out of Decadence, Epiphany

August 18, 2017
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We want to see how looming middle age is treating these two friends, whose intersecting careers and self-images shape their relationship.

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Commentary — “Detroit” & Critical Red Herrings

August 10, 2017
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I’m not going to see Detroit and that’s because I’m sure it will have the virtues of Kathryn Bigelow’s other films and the corresponding flaws.

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Film Review: “I Called Him Morgan” — A Superb Jazz Documentary

August 8, 2017
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I Called Him Morgan has been lauded as one of the best films of the year, and rightfully so.

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Film Review: “Lost in Paris” — Earthy Yet Surreal Fantasy

August 6, 2017
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Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s vision tries to elevate the everyday to a realm of magic by way of the absurd.

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Film Review: “Detroit” — A Brickbat of a Film

August 5, 2017
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Detroit leaves the ethical questions it raises open.

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Film Review: “Landline” — A Compelling Comedy-With-Drama

July 28, 2017
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Landline is a textured, often funny and subtly acted portrait of a family experiencing rumblings set off by sexual affairs.

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Book Review: “The Flaherty Seminar” — A History of Cinematic Contention

July 26, 2017
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It’s probably unfair, but attending the Flaherty, I kept seeing in my mind the pig Napoleon and his attack dogs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

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Film Review: “Dunkirk” — Overwhelming Immediacy

July 23, 2017
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The Wermacht cut its swathe through France at a rate that amazed Winston Churchill in no small part because it was on speed.

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Film Tribute: George Romero — A Legacy of Blood, Invention, and Survival

July 23, 2017
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Even after death, the human instinct is to kill or be killed.

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