M. Leary

Northfork (Polish bros, 2003)

(Ed. Note: This was originally published at The Matthew’s House Project.) “We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us.” (Yes, that is actually a line from the film…) Northfork is a deceptively simple story as bare as its 1950’s Montana backdrop. In a mostly vacant town about to be […]

M. Leary

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Scherfig, 2003) – CIFF 2003

(Ed. Note: This was originally published at The Matthew’s House Project.) Nothing sounds more depressing than a Scottish film made by Danish filmmakers. But thankfully, Scherfig has cast aside her Dogme 95 convictions for this film while somehow maintaining the same serendipitous melancholy she captured in Italian For Beginners. In Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, Scherfig’s […]