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CYRANO, MY LOVE

December 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment

CYRANO, MY LOVE

CYRANO MY LOVE is an ebullient comedy of errors that recounts the fraught confluence of art, commerce, and egos that gave birth to Cyrano de Bergerac, the most successful play in French theater history. As witty and wise as that character himself, it is a love letter to the creative process that spares none of… Read More »

Tagged With: Belle Epoque, Comedie Francaise, Cyrano de Bergerac, Paris, playwright, Sarah Bernhardt, stage, theater

TRANSIT

December 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment

TRANSIT

Christian Petzold has done something extraordinary with TRANSIT. Using the novel of the same name by Anna Seghers, he has taken the story of a young German fleeing the Nazis during World War II and transmuted it into a universal story of refugees. By removing the specifics and setting it in the first-world present, the… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, false identity, Marseille, Nazi, occupied France, refuggee, WWII

JOKER

January 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

It is, perhaps, a truism that every generation gets the Batman or Superman that they need/deserve. With Todd Philips’ JOKER, though, we get more than a cultural gloss of the zeitgeist.  We get a funhouse mirror that lurks deep within a house of horrors that is an extrapolation of what happens when the 1% of… Read More »

Tagged With: clown, DC, origin story, riots, social commentary, urban decay

1917

December 23, 2019 By 3 Comments

1917

There is a moment during Sam Mendes’ masterpiece of a film, 1917, where a character is permitted to remove himself from the overwhelming, unrelenting now, and process both  the facts of what he’s been through and the conjecture about what he’s about to face. During this moment, George MacKay, playing the appropriately named Will, gives… Read More »

Tagged With: France, Germany, Great War, trench warfare, World War I

RICHARD JEWELL

December 13, 2019 By 1 Comment

RICHARD JEWELL

RICHARD JEWELL certainly has the makings of a compelling, infuriating cautionary tale about the abuse of power, but Clint Eastwood’s homage to the common man chooses instead to be a screed against ambitious women and government agents at the mercy of their hormones.  Everything that ensues after Jewell finds a bomb planted at Centennial Part… Read More »

Tagged With: 1996 Olympics, Atlanta, based on a true story, bombing, Centennial Park

KNIVES OUT

November 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

KNIVES OUT

KNIVES OUT takes a brisk pace with its cinematic legerdemain as its cast expertly calibrate their performances so that arch never strays into the certain disaster of becoming artificial. The result is a giddily entertaining, emotionally engaging film that sets a new standard for its genre, and, if there is any justice, will launch the Benoit Blanc franchise.

Tagged With: class system, gentleman detective, immigration, mystery, whodunit

LAST CHRISTMAS

November 10, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LAST CHRISTMAS

LAST CHRISTMAS is a lugubrious exercise in muddled storytelling.  Billed as a romantic comedy, there is little humor to be found as the romance between a klutz who’s lost her way in life, and the handsome stranger who pops in and out of that life fails to ignite past the infamous friend zone. The klutz… Read More »

Tagged With: Brexit, Christmas, Covent Garden, George Michael, holiday, mystery man, sauerkraut

DR. SLEEP

November 10, 2019 By Leave a Comment

DR. SLEEP

Click here for the flashback interview with Ewan McGregor for SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN. DR. SLEEP, the sequel to THE SHINING, faced several issues in being brought to the screen, and has done so with a neat aplomb. The original film veered wildly from its source material as Stanley Kubrick adapted it to fit… Read More »

Tagged With: child predators, New Hampshire, sequel, shining, Stephen King

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

November 8, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT

THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT is an elegantly realized intellectual thriller which considers not only the eternal struggle between art and commerce, but also the effect of personalities on inventing the future. In this case, three visionaries, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla. Each with a particular kind of genius, each with idiosyncrasies… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, alternating current, based on a true story, direct current, Edison, electricity, J.P. Morgan, technology, Tesla, Westinghouse

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

November 2, 2019 By Leave a Comment

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

And so we discover with TERMINATOR: DARK FATE that time is not an endless loop where events repeat zoetrope fashion. Rather it is a curly-cue, not unlike a fusilli. So it is that in this version of the saga, the apocalypse that was/will be Skynet never happened, and John Connor is a name unknown in… Read More »

Tagged With: apocalypse, enhanced human, gyno-centric, robots, sequel, Skynet, Terminator

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