Review
Steve Reich’s 1976 minimalist masterpiece, performed by Ensemble Signal, was a special event to see and hear live.
“Deepfaking Sam Altman” is an entertaining, off-beat deep dive into the hands-on tech needed to generate deepfakes. It also sounds the alarm about the growing imitative power of AI.
Director Baz Luhrmann’s exhilarating documentary-concert film gives us Elvis in his prime.
Admiring looks at a wealth of illuminating documentaries in this year’s gathering.
Disrepair is the leitmotif. The atmosphere throughout is dark and gray, tinting a sadness that to the narrator seems to be inexpressible.
What Allegra Goodman’s stories serve up could be called a vision of Jewish American Life Lite.
The ratio between fantasy and real life felt off in this uneven film version of Kander and Ebb’s 1990 musical.
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”.
“Evolution” is a major statement from master musicians building on a strong tradition and taking it forward into our own generation with passion and elegance.
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.
Recent Comments