Almost off the bat, you can tell something is rotten in Enemies of the State. Cloaked in steely blues and gunmetal gray, director Sonia Kennebeck telegraphs an unhappy ending. On that, she delivers. Maybe unresolved is a better description. She also … Continue reading ENEMIES OF THE STATE
Screening Aug. 4-10, the Mimesis Documentary Festival (MDF) takes over the Dairy Arts Center’s cinemas for a simultaneous return and debut. A return as this is the second summer MDF will immerse viewers in screenings, workshops, and conversations, and a … Continue reading The Art of the Real: 2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival
Pulling from home video, and footage shot between 1965 and 2019 (on six different formats no less: 8 and 16mm, VHS, Hi8, Mini DV, and digital), Film About centers on Ira Sachs, a successful bohemian businessman who worked out of a shoebox, … Continue reading FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO
They needn’t have bothered. Jungle Cruise, Disney’s latest live-action cinematic adaptation of a theme park ride, was already a classic Hollywood adventure before it became a pun-laden excursion down African and Asian rivers. That movie was 1951’s The African Queen, the key … Continue reading JUNGLE CRUISE
There’s a Green Knight in King Arthur’s court, and he wants to play a game—a Christmas game. The rules are simple: Whoever is “boldest of blood and wildest of heart step forth, take up arms and try with honor to … Continue reading THE GREEN KNIGHT
Bill Baker (Matt Damon) is no Philip Marlowe. He thinks he is, and with a bit of training, he might be. But he’s not there yet. You see, his daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), is incarcerated in a French prison for … Continue reading STILLWATER
A man has spent 15 years in prison. On the day of his release, his friends take him out, get him loaded, and drop him off at the local church that will house him until he gets his feet under … Continue reading LORELEI
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Old, now in theaters, and Working Girls, recently restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection. Listen to After Image, Fridays … Continue reading
Old is obsessed with time. It doesn’t have much to say about it, except that it passes quickly. In one scene, two 6-year-olds are standing in the surf when the first kid admits to the second that he has no friends. … Continue reading OLD
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