Richard and Mildred Loving just wanted to be together. They loved each other and wanted to raise a family, and in 1958, the two drove from their home in Central Point, Virginia, to Washington D.C. to become man and wife … Continue reading LOVING
Some days it feels like this slog will never end. Other days, it feels like new life is just around the corner. This year’s Sundance Film Festival belongs firmly in the latter. What has brought around this sudden turn of … Continue reading This week in Film — Dispatches from the Sundance Film Festival
Every year, the Australian-based online quarterly, Senses of Cinema, invites writers from all over the globe to submit their selections for the best movies of the year. This year, over a hundred writers sent in their picks, giving a pretty comprehensive … Continue reading SENSES OF CINEMA: World Cinema Poll
Multi-hyphenate Armando Iannucci might be the best working satirist today (all seven seasons of Veep are streaming on HBO Max and DirecTV). His take on the transfer of power in the USSR circa 1953 is so loaded with jokes you have to … Continue reading THE DEATH OF STALIN
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two World War II dramas: Dara of Jasenovic (now playing in select theaters) and The Ascent (available now on Blu-ray and DVD from The … Continue reading
Not every great movie needs a signature shot, but it helps when you have one: In The Ascent, a 1977 Russian World War II drama newly restored and released from The Criterion Collection, director Larisa Shepitko gives us her signature shot … Continue reading This week in Film — THE ASCENT
Established by the Independent State of Croatia, under the rule of the fascist Ustase government, Jasenovac was a chain of extermination camps designed to murder Serbs, Jews, and Roma people during World War II. Significantly, they were the only such … Continue reading DARA OF JASENOVAC
The best music and the best whiskey come from the same part of the country.” You don’t find taglines like that very often. Then again, you don’t come across movies like Heartworn Highways that often either. First released in 1976—available Feb. 5 … Continue reading HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS
Edee (Robin Wright) has no desire to live. She was once a wife and a mother, but a cruel twist of fate snatched both in one blow. So Edee packs up and leaves Chicago for a remote cabin located deep … Continue reading LAND
