LA LA LAND
The city of Los Angeles is home to a million stories, all of them different, many of them sad. They don’t always start out that way. Most arrive in the City of Stars as eager young dreamers with their heads … Continue reading LA LA LAND
Category: Reviews
YOU NEVER HAD IT: AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI
Soft-spoken and even, Charles Bukowski sounds nothing like his face looks. Or like his prose reads. In his introduction to the 1979 edition of John Fante’s Ask the Dust, Bukowski recounts his early days of living in Los Angeles, drinking wine, … Continue reading YOU NEVER HAD IT: AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI
BONNIE AND CLYDE
It starts with a woman, naked and alone. She primps herself in the mirror, bangs on the brass bars of her bedpost in frustration, and paces the shabby room like a caged animal. What does she want? Sex, of course. … Continue reading BONNIE AND CLYDE
THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND
Lanky, hulking, and almost always stooped, Scott Carlin (Pete Davidson) is 24 years old, jobless, directionless, and living in the same Staten Island home he grew up in. Mom, Margie (Marisa Tomei), is an emergency room nurse, and though they’re … Continue reading THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT)
There is an old saying that you should never meet your heroes. They may disappoint you. The Belgian comedy from writer/director Jaco Van Dormael, The Brand New Testament, takes that one step further. Maybe you shouldn’t meet God. You may find … Continue reading THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT)
FRANCOFONIA
If you really want to see something spectacular this summer, head to Paris and take a trip up the Eiffel Tower. And don’t skimp—shell out those extra Euros and head all the way to the top. It’s worth it. Up … Continue reading FRANCOFONIA
NEPTUNE FROST
It opens in an African coltan mine. Black bodies dig through the rocks for precious metals. “Metal precious currency,” the narrator intones. “Third and First world currency. Black market currency… That old black-bodied currency.” Men with guns demand the workers … Continue reading NEPTUNE FROST
Mimesis Documentary Festival — MANSCAPING
A gay painter in Pittsburgh, Devan Shimoyama (above), talks about the travails of finding a barber capable of cutting his Black hair. “We don’t cut hair with texture,” a stylist tells him. This leads Shimoyama to begin frequenting Black barbershops, … Continue reading Mimesis Documentary Festival — MANSCAPING
Mimesis Documentary Festival — OUR ARK
A lizard is photographed from 360 degrees. The lizard will soon become part of a computer archive that is recreating digital simulations of every animal on the planet, starting with the ones most likely to become extinct. For whom is … Continue reading Mimesis Documentary Festival — OUR ARK
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