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PRESENCE

January 22, 2025 By Leave a Comment

PRESENCE

Steven Soderbergh’s signature style is one of cool detachment to his characters. His films tackle people in crisis, but the tone is always one of an ersatz cinema verité witness to what is happening to them. In PRESENCE, he has channeled that aesthetic into a ghost story told from the spirit’s point of view. Literally.… Read More »

Tagged With: dysfunctional family, favoritism, grief, haunting, orange juice, overdose, passive father, POV, tracking shot

THE LESSON

July 9, 2023 By Leave a Comment

THE LESSON

There are murky waters, literally and figuratively, in THE LESSON, a languid tragedy of manners about family dynamics and career neuroses. At its center are Liam Somers (Daryl McCormack), a brilliant literature tutor struggling to complete his first novel, and the subject of Liam’s Oxford thesis, the revered writer, J.M. Sinclair (Richard E. Grant). To… Read More »

Tagged With: art, dysfunctional family, family dynamics, literature, novelist, tutor

Ravi and Geeta Patel Want You to MEET THE PATELS

September 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Ravi and Geeta Patel Want You to MEET THE PATELS

I have rarely laughed as much as I did when I spoke to Ravi and Geeta Patel on August 13, 2015, it was by Skype, with me in San Francisco, Geeta in North Carolina, and Ravi in Hollywood, but the rapport made it seem like we were all in the same room. The subject was… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, arranged marriage, audience awards, blind dates, brother--sister relationship, divorce rate, documentary, dysfunctional family, Family, festival circuit, finding love, Geeta Patel, Hot Docs, Indian-American, LA Film Festival, media, Michael Moore, Project Kashmir, Ravi Patel, siblings, Southeast Asian, The Wachowskis, UTA

Todd Solondz Explains LIFE DURING WARTIME

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Todd Solondz Explains LIFE DURING WARTIME

Todd Solondz was just finishing up his oatmeal when we were introduced on July 21, 2010. With a such a wholesome and solid breakfast under his belt, he was more than ready to talk about LIFE DURING WARTIME, a film that uses the idiom of wholesomeness and savagely juxtaposes it with lives rife with anguish,… Read More »

Tagged With: Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Bar-Mitzvah, Charlotte Rampling, Chris Marquette, Ciaran Hinds, cinema, comedy, director, disturbing, Dylan Riley Snider, dysfunctional family, gumdrops, LIFE DURING WARTIME, Michael Lerner, Micharl Kenneth Williams, narrative, oatmeal pedophilia, obscene phone calls, Paris HIlton, Paul Rubens, Renee Taylor, Shirley Henderson, sisters, Todd Solondz, writer

Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris & LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris & LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Johnathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are partners is life (as in married) and in business (as in successful makers of commercials for umpteen years). Maybe it took such a combination to bring LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE to the screen without slighting either the family angle of the story, or the sly visual vocabulary used to portray… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, comedy-drama, desert, director, dysfunctional family, Family, film, filming in the desert, Jonathan Dayton, LITTLE MISS SUSHINE, movie, narrative, Valerie Faris, VW bus

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