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ELVIS

June 26, 2022 By 1 Comment

ELVIS

It’s the moment when Elvis (Austin Butler) first asserts his independence from the tentacled hold that his manager, Col. Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) has, and, alas, will always have on him. Elvis at this point in his nascent career has been labeled a threat to the American way of life in the conformist 1950s onto… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, civil rights, Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, Memphis, rock and roll, sexual repression, sexual revolution, Tupelo

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN

June 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN

In THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN, we see the audacity of innocence. Based on the life, and wholly unlikely exploits, of Maurice Flitcroft, a name that all but demands to have a shaggy-dog story attached to it, it reveals how a man with no formal training in golf found himself competing at the British Open,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, British Open, class system, crane operator, disco dancing, golf, self-taught golfer

I’M CHARLIE WALKER — Patrick Gilles Interview

June 10, 2022 By Leave a Comment

I’M CHARLIE WALKER — Patrick Gilles Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. I’ve lived in San Francisco for many, many years, and yet I’d never heard the story of Charlie Walker, an African-American man with a dream and a real gift for playing the system against itself. I was delighted to learn about that part of my city’s history… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Boots Riley, Charlie Walker, Dylan Bake, Mike Colter, oil company, oil spill, racism, Safiya Fredricks, San Francisco, trucking, Willie Brown

HOUSE OF GUCCI

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

HOUSE OF GUCCI

HOUSE OF GUCCI is a ramshackle accretion of muddled plots studded with oddly incoherent character development and performances that range from stock (Al Pacino) to enigmatic (Adam Driver). This overlong effort takes a tale of sex, money, and power among the super rich and renders it into a dull slog brightened only by Lady Gaga’s… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, designer, huate couture, internecine fighting, Italy, Milan

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

For all the meticulous detail in THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE about the early life of Tammy Faye Bakker, this biopic about the rise of fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker has an ending that is curiously sparse. It’s not just Tammy Faye’s second marriage to Roe Messner that is erased, though he does… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Christianity, evangelicals, hypocrisy, religion, televangelism

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

June 8, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

Based on the remarkable life of James Brooke, EDGE OF THE WORLD is an introspective film about how an Englishman became the Raja of Sulawak. Such was his fame in Victorian England that Joseph Conrad used him as the model for the title character in his novel, Lord Jim, and rich women proposed marriage to… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Borneo, British Imperialism, Malaysia, pirates, Sulawak

DREAM HORSE

May 22, 2021 By Leave a Comment

DREAM HORSE

DREAM HORSE is the heartwarming and uplifting film that is sets out to be. Unpretentious as the working class folks that this based-on-actual-events story celebrates, it tells the classic underdog story of the race horse that evokes sneers from professionals and aristocrats before he puts them all in their places. If it sounds formulaic, it… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, horse racing, syndicate, Wales

ENFANT TERRIBLE

May 21, 2021 By Leave a Comment

ENFANT TERRIBLE

At one point, late in in ENFANT TERRIBLE, the titular character of this bio-pic, omnisexual filmmaker and agent provacateur of the German New Wave, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Oliver Masucci), calls himself an uber-pig. It’s part boast, part confession, and part apology. As seen in Oskar Roehler’s stunningly oneiric film, they are all consistent with the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Berlin, German Cinema, German New Wave

THE COURIER

March 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE COURIER

Based on a true story, THE COURIER takes us back to the Cold War and the palpable threat of nuclear annihilation. Once again, we are reminded that it was as much luck as it was diplomacy or mutually assured destruction that prevented World War III. In this case, the good luck of two people for… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, CI, cold war, Cuban Missile Crisis, MI6, Moscow, Soviet Union, spies

SILK ROAD

February 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

SILK ROAD

There is a wealth of confirmation to be found about many of our worst nightmares in SILK ROAD, a cautionary tale of stereotypes, specialization, and the consequences of absolute freedom. Based on an article by David Kushner in Rolling Stone, it charts the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson), a 20-something idealist of… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, dark web, DEA, drug sales, FBI, fungible ethics, internet sales, libertarian, murder for hire

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