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MADE IN ITALY

August 9, 2020 By Leave a Comment

MADE IN ITALY

A story well told is always worth our attention, and thus it is with MADE IN ITALY, a heart-warming tale of coming to terms with the past in order to face a future without the burden of unresolved grief and lingering complacency. Set for the most part in the spectacular Tuscan countryside, its pacing and… Read More »

Tagged With: broken heart, divorce, estrangement, father-son relationship, grief, guilt, Italy, remodeling, Tuscany

CRASHING – Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee Interview

January 19, 2018 By Leave a Comment

CRASHING – Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee were in the middle of their media blitz for the second season of their HBO series, CRASHING, when we met for a chat on January 17, 2018. The grind of the road did nothing to dampen their either exuberance or their whip-smart humor.… Read More »

Tagged With: Artie Lange, Bill Burr, comedy, divorce, emotional truth, factual truth, Judah Miller, Judd Apatow, Pascal’s Wager, Penn Gillette, Sarah Silverman, stand-up, TJ Miller, Trump, watermelon, women and comedy, yard sale

TRAIN TO BUSAN (Busanhaeng)

September 25, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TRAIN TO BUSAN (Busanhaeng)

New zombies, new rules. If TRAIN TO BUSAN did nothing but find a new take on zombies, it would be worth your time, but this Korean gem goes the extra yardage to gift us with an engrossing story that contains only a soupçon of well-regulated sappy sentiment.  It’s far more interested in observing what happens… Read More »

Tagged With: divorce, father-daughter, horror, Korea, pregnancy, Seoul, thriller, train, zombie

MAGGIE’S PLAN

August 23, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MAGGIE’S PLAN

The eponymous Maggie of MAGGIE’S PLAN is a wisp of a winsome waif, a college career counselor with a gentle demeanor and a determined resolve that can move mountains. As played with a solemn quirkiness by Greta Gerwig, she is a woman who aims to live both honestly and ethically. Alas, her aim is less… Read More »

Tagged With: adultery, artificial insemination, divorce, marriage, motherhood, romance, subterfuge

Rebecca Miller Explains MAGGIE’S PLAN

June 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Rebecca Miller Explains MAGGIE’S PLAN

I love how Rebecca Miller’s mind works. With the eponymous Maggie of her film, MAGGIE’S PLAN, she has brought to life a character who manipulates other for their own good, and still seems like the great-hearted soul. And she’s made it a wickedly smart comedy. Perhaps it was only Greta Gerwig who could have pulled… Read More »

Tagged With: affair, comedy, divorce, etsy culture, Gary Winick, hysteria, idiosyncratic accents, Karen Rinaldi, knitting as feminism, motherhood, pickle-maker, pregnancy, Rebecca Miller, stitch and bitch, topknot

Shlomi Elkabetz Records GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM

February 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Shlomi Elkabetz Records GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM

GETT, the Hebrew word for a bill of divorce, is the third film in a trilogy made by brother-and-sister filmmakers Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz. The theme, as Shlomi explained to me on October 6, 2014, is freedom, specifically women’s freedom in the modern world. Inspired by their mother’s life, it’s a contemplation on the nature… Read More »

Tagged With: Arab Jew, Ashkenazi, Bet Din, cinema, definition of beauty, director, divorce, film, gett, interview, Israel, Israeli cinema, light design, Maghreb, Menashe Noy, Ministry of Justice, Morocco, progressive, right of return, screenwriter, Sephard, Shomi Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, sound design, trial, women's rights, Yemeni

OLD DOGS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

OLD DOGS

OLD DOGS has a strong cast fighting a script that is labored, stale, and obvious. That cast is led by John Travolta and Robin Williams, both of whom are no strangers to comedy, nor to miscalculations when it comes to choosing scripts. They are Charlie and Dan, pals and business partners of 30 years. While… Read More »

Tagged With: child-proofers, divorce, ex-wife, fatherhood, incontinent dog, kids, tanning booth

A SEPARATION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

A SEPARATION

With A SEPARATION, Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has taken the most ordinary of stories, played out by the most ordinary of people, and created an extraordinary work about the tangential relationship between justice and the law, honesty and truth. How good intentions can go horribly wrong, and because of them, the most considered, logical lie… Read More »

Tagged With: caretaker, divorce, Iran, Tehran

DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE

The subject matter of this intimate documentary belies its breezy title, a title imposed, of course, by the commissioning editors with an eye towards its marketing potential.  Made by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, it shows the casual brutality inflicted upon women in a country that views independent females with suspicion and, perhaps, even fear. Mir… Read More »

Tagged With: child custody, divorce, Iran, law court

Josh Lucas Visits SWEET HOME ALABAMA

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Josh Lucas Visits SWEET HOME ALABAMA

Josh Lucas has so far made a career of playing less than savory characters, from a vapid narcissist in AMERICAN PSYCHO to a sleazy club owner leading a minor astray in THE DEEP END. With Jake, the not-quite-ex-husband of Reese Witherspoon’s Melanie in SWEET HOME ALABAMA, he gets to play a nice guy for a change,… Read More »

Tagged With: Civil War re-enactors, divorce, Reese Witherspoon, southern accent, SWEET HOME ALABAMA

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