Review
How our memoirist and the man who shook Mickey Mouse’s hand crossed paths is characteristic of the author’s good fortune and perseverance.
Our critic watched a half-dozen films in this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival and shares his thoughts.
Director Hal Hartley is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living.
This is a terrific compendium of new music of the best sort: the kind that’s brilliantly written, expressively direct, played with assurance, and engineered with clarity and warmth.
In “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater thrillingly captures the sense of Jean-Luc Godard as an artist feeling his way in real time, as if in a dark room, toward a new vision.
Three powerful films at NYFF about violence, survival, and revenge.
“House of Diggs” is an engaging biography of a historically important Black Congressman, an effective advocate for racial equality who fell prey to the temptation of ‘living large.’
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: is a powerful addition to the recent female-created examinations of the ways women, and particularly mothers, can be unsupported or outright dismissed by contemporary society.
“Against Morality” is the cri de coeur of a cultural critic who realizes that the presentation of art and its adjacent pursuits, including much art itself, have become the subsidiaries of progressive politics.
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