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BACK TO BURGUNDY

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BACK TO BURGUNDY

BACK TO BURGUNDY’s original French title is less about returning home and more about the ties that bind one to that home. I leave the reasons for why movie titles are willfully mistranslated, but bring it up because THE TIES THAT BIND feels like a more accurate description of why a prodigal son finds it… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, France, intergenerational tension, winemaking

1945

May 19, 2018 By Leave a Comment

1945

The Oscars™ are not always the most reliable barometer of cinematic greatness.  Let us remember the year that KRAMER VS. KRAMER beat out APOCALYPSE NOW. This year’s oversights were less egregious, and I am delighted that A FANTASTIC WOMAN won the Best Foreign Language prize.  I am still miffed, though, that 1945 wasn’t even nominated… Read More »

Tagged With: 1945, anti-Semitism, black and white, Hungary, occupation, World War II

HOSTILES

January 6, 2018 By Leave a Comment

HOSTILES

HOSTILES is a film that takes itself very seriously. It should. Taking as its themes both human nature’s capacity for violence and its overweening need for mercy, it is not something to be approached lightly, something that director Scott Cooper took to heart in his adaptation of the late Donald E. Stewart’s manuscript. Set in… Read More »

Tagged With: American West, cavalry, Cheyenne, moral relativity, racism, western

FUTURE ’38

December 26, 2017 By 1 Comment

FUTURE ’38

There is a dividing line for those contemplating a viewing of FUTURE ’38. It has to do with wordplay. If you love puns you will be charmed by the whole-hearted impudence of this self-conscious parody.  If not, best to move along, though you will miss a fine excursion into dead-pan drollery. As premise, we have… Read More »

Tagged With: pun, romance, Sci-fi, spoof, time travel

DOWNSIZING

December 21, 2017 By 1 Comment

DOWNSIZING

DOWNSIZING is a film that cries out to be admired. Pondered. Parsed. Philosophical propositions and social commentary flit by in a mad whirl of arch observation and deadpan dea as we are invited to consider a veritable cornucopia of topics, all eminently worthy of examination. The class struggle and the human propensity for prejudice; the… Read More »

Tagged With: materialism, Omaha, prejudice, satire, social commentary

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

December 16, 2017 By Leave a Comment

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

Good and evil are inextricably entwined in STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI.  It makes for a pleasing metaphysical subtext to a film with spectacular action sequences, pointed references to the political economics of the class struggle, and a character in Benicio Del Toro whose nihilism carries with it a whiff of Zen philosophy at its… Read More »

Tagged With: balance, franchise, good and evil, mysticism, Sci-fi, sequel, Star Wars, The Force, trilogy

JUSTICE LEAGUE

December 1, 2017 By 1 Comment

JUSTICE LEAGUE

JUSTICE LEAGUE is a film with many problems. Some are inherent in an origin-style story that introduces several characters to what the filmmakers hope will be an audience eager to follow their further, individual, adventures. Some are just inexplicable. Take the plot device that is nothing short of asinine, and which I can’t discuss without… Read More »

Tagged With: Batman, Hellscape, Mother Box, origin story, resurrection, sequel, Steppenwolf, Superman, Wonder Woman

THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS

November 22, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS

In an era when Christmas, or at the least the merchandising for it, begins sometime in late August, there is a certain charm in THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS, which looks back to a time when it barely registered as a blip on the cultural radar. And the the to origins of the story that… Read More »

Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas tree, debtor's prison, Dickens, publishing, Victorians, writer's block

SUBURBICON

November 4, 2017 By 1 Comment

SUBURBICON

Chekov’s three sisters had their dream of a perfect life in Moscow.  The increasingly desperate and frazzled denizens of SUBURBICON have Aruba, a place where the food is exotic, the golf is for couples, and the long arm of the law cannot reach them. Alas, this deliciously stylized evocation of the dark side of the… Read More »

Tagged With: 1959, father-son, murder, racism, suburbia

LOVING VINCENT

October 22, 2017 By 1 Comment

LOVING VINCENT

The subjects of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpieces come to startling, vivid, and enchanting life in LOVING VINCENT, a film of enormous beauty and sharp insight. Created by rotoscoping actors, and then painting each animation cell by hand in oils, the result is an immersive experience of how the artist saw the world while also questioning… Read More »

Tagged With: Armand Roulin, Auvers-sure-Oise, Dr. Gachet, hand-painted animation, mystery, oil painting, suicide, Theo Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh

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