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AQUAMAN

December 23, 2018 By Leave a Comment

AQUAMAN

The good news is that Momoa and his mammoth charm more than carry a film that is decidedly not the most original of super-hero tales.

Tagged With: Atlantis, DC Comics, father-son, half-brothers, magic trident

BEAUTIFUL BOY

October 23, 2018 By Leave a Comment

BEAUTIFUL BOY

The devastation of drug addiction is passionately acted and masterfully told in BEAUTIFUL BOY, a film that is savagely tender in mood and execution. Based on the memoir of the same name by Bay Area journalist David Sheff (played by Steve Carrell), and Tweaked, the companion memoir by Sheff’s son, Nic ( played by Timothée… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, drug addiction, father-son, meth amphetamine

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

COLUMBUS

August 12, 2017 By 1 Comment

COLUMBUS

Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) notes early on that one of the many architectural treasures of the titular COLUMBUS features elements that are off-center, but are still in harmonious balance. It is, as with so much else in this emotionally explosive but soft-spoken film, an exquisitely realized metaphor.  A tale of seeming opposites with surprising and… Read More »

Tagged With: architecture, Columbus, father-son, illness, mentee, mother-daughter, Ohio

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Kraftidioten)

September 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Kraftidioten)

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE is a bracingly original foray into very black humor. Set in the arctic-lite of rural Norway, it is a tale of relentless pursuit, clueless hubris, and the eccentricities that long winters provoke in the population. Writer Kim Fupz Aakeson and director Hans Petter Moland serve up this arch film about fathers and sons… Read More »

Tagged With: crime, drug dealer, drugs, father-son, murder, Norway, organized crime, overdose, revenge, snow plow

LITTLE MEN — Ira Sachs & Theo Taplitz Interview

August 12, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LITTLE MEN — Ira Sachs & Theo Taplitz Interview

I’m still not convinces that Theo Taplitz >isn’t< a well-preserved 40-year-old masquerading as an adolescent. Still too young to vote, he’s already made two short films that are whimsical, yet solid (click here for links), and given a performance in Ira Sachs’ LITTLE MEN that is wise beyond his years. We started my interview with… Read More »

Tagged With: audition, box boy, cassette, casting, father-son, gender, LaGuardia High School, Ozu, sexuality, The 400 Blows, The World of Henry Orient, Walkman

LITTLE MEN

August 1, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LITTLE MEN

There is no phase of a parent-child relationship more fraught with peril, and for which either party is less prepared, than when the latter learns that the former is not infallible. LITTLE MEN portrays that milestone with intelligence and sensitivity for all concerned as two 13-year-olds become fast friends only to have their relationship threatened… Read More »

Tagged With: Brooklyn, child's-eye view, father-son, friendship, gentrification, lease dispute

Matt Ross is CAPTAIN FANTASTIC

July 11, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Matt Ross is CAPTAIN FANTASTIC

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC opens with a deer hunt.  It’s graphic. It’s violent. Yet there is something about it that shows enormous respect for the animal, and for the young man who brings it down using only a knife. This is not sport, it’s food.  That sequence was the first thing I brought up on July 7,… Read More »

Tagged With: alternative educations, being present, Carey Fukunaga, child rearing, crochet, death, Family, father-daughter, father-son, funeral, gender fluidity, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, hunting, long close-up, Off the grid, Ozu, parental anxiety, spike stitch, The Mermaid, William Butler Yeats

LEN AND COMPANY

June 25, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LEN AND COMPANY

The eponymous Len, of LEN AND COMPANY is Len Black (Rhys Ifans), a successful record producer and towering failure of a human being, who has absented himself from the world in order the ponder the detritus of his life.  He longs for silence, or at least no music of any kind in his rustic upstate… Read More »

Tagged With: father-son, fetid swimming pool, music business, record producer, stage to screen, upstate New York

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

April 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL is a film that plays with its audience’s sense of normality. Beginning in the conventional and slowly, almost imperceptibly, moving us from the quotidian drama of a kidnapped child and a father’s unconditional love, into a boldly unconventional consideration of that elusive point where science and spirituality merge. There is nothing predictable here,… Read More »

Tagged With: child abduction, end times, father-son, FBI, NSA, supernatural

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