David D’Arcy

Film Review: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Art on Screen in Many Forms

March 3, 2022
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The Berlin international Film Festival has always been an event where films on art, architecture, and design premiere. This year, as always, the selections were a mixed bag.

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Film Reviews: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Diamonds, Drugs, and Sex

February 27, 2022
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Diamonds, drugs, and sex — the stuff of movies.

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Film Reviews: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Two Movies about Workers Under Assault

February 19, 2022
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Two stylistically different films in which workers are exploited and empowered.

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Film Review: Tracking the Snow Leopard — “The Velvet Queen”

December 31, 2021
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The Velvet Queen, elegantly directed by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier, is a vivid chronicle of an arduous journey, old-fashioned but visually high-tech.

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Letter from New York — Dresden Treasures, and Lots of Picasso

November 10, 2021
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New York has come back to life, so there is more art to see than anyone has time to visit or write about.

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Film Review: Chronicle of a Movie Never Made – “Speer Goes to Hollywood”

November 2, 2021
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Albert Speer’s reputation as a “good Nazi” was this architect’s postwar monument. He spent as much time burnishing that brand after prison as he did when he was rising through the Nazi ranks.

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Film Reviews: At the NYFF — Haynes’s “The Velvet Underground,” Dumont’s “France,” and Peleshian’s “Nature”

October 15, 2021
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Reviews of Todd Haynes’s documentary The Velvet Underground, Bruno Dumont’s France, a satire-drama about the news industry, and Nature, Artavazd Peleshian’s graceful parade of natural disasters.

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Film Reviews: NY Film Festival Closes — Theater on the Screen

October 12, 2021
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Two divergent works of theater for the screen were at this year’s NYFF, an adaptation of Macbeth in black and white, and a raunchy sleeper from Romania.

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Film Review: “Prayers for the Stolen,” A Microcosm of Mexico, Makes US Premiere at the NY Film Festival

October 6, 2021
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Let’s see if Prayers for the Stolen is selected as Mexico’s Academy Award nominee. It’s a long shot, given that this is a film that tells so much of the truth.

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Film Reviews: Documentaries at the Toronto International Film Festival — Cops and Kenny G

September 25, 2021
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Docs at the Toronto International Film Festival ranged from the topical to the historical to the cultural. Here are a few that you should try to see.

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