I may not have the freedom or funds to get to the Toronto International Film Festival, but most of us have the time to enjoy and learn from Victor Morton’s thought-provoking coverage of the films he saw. His capsule reviews are not really capsules at all… they’re more like megadoses of vitamins for your moviegoing […]
How to discuss a film about which the less you know going in the better… which may or may not get enough U.S. distribution to matter… though if it does, you really should try to see… and getting you to do so may depend on someone like me convincing you to… without telling you too […]
Richard Brody is the movie editor of “Goings On About Town” in The New Yorker, and writes their blog, “The Front Row.” Some notable recent entries: In MONKEYSHINES (Sep 14), Brody speculates that the failure of the Darwin biopic Creation (Amiel, 2009) to find an American distributor may have less to do with the opposition […]
In this poem, Allison Joseph reveals the truth about public transportation: it’s public.
Today at Greencine Daily, Jeffrey Anderson delivers an interview with Michael Stuhlbarg. You may not know that name now, but you will be hearing it everywhere soon… maybe even at the Academy Awards. When I attended the press screening, I felt a strange anticipation. How often do we see a film by Oscar-winning filmmakers that […]
With reports spreading today that Marlon Wayans, not Eddie Murphy, may be playing Richard Pryor in the biopic called Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?, I’m immediately wondering how director Bill Condon will capture both the heights of hilarity in Pryor’s performances and the depths of sadness in Pryor’s story. What films have successfully […]
Even though this Chattanooga only appears in flashes in Jarrod Whaley’s Hell is Other People, it works well as background for this perfectly cast take on unemployment, self-awareness, and really awkward attempts at initiating human contact.
This essay articulates how Derrida’s notion of hospitality may help us to overcome structural racism.
Right up to the moment the fox opened his mouth to speak, things were going pretty well….