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SUMMERING

August 13, 2022 By 1 Comment

SUMMERING

SUMMERING artfully combines the mundane with magical realism as four 11-year-old girls face summer’s end and the daunting prospect of middle school.

Tagged With: dead body, friendship, helicopter mother, mean girl, middle school, summer

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

MICROBE AND GASOLINE — Michel Gondry Interview

July 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MICROBE AND GASOLINE — Michel Gondry Interview

Michel Gondry is a man unafraid to let flights of fancy inform, and sometimes drive, his whimsically serious films, which include MOOD INDIGO and THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP. Yet in MICROBE AND GASOLINE, his semi-autobiographical film, he has kept his gift for magical realism in check, focusing instead on the magic of friendship at a… Read More »

Tagged With: adolescence, childhood home, French Cinema, friendship, GREEN HORNET, hand-drawn animation, IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, memories, Noam Chomsky, Runaways, sexual harassment

QUEEN OF EARTH

January 4, 2016 By Leave a Comment

QUEEN OF EARTH

When we first see Catherine (Elizabeth Moss), she appears to be melting. Mascara and eyeliner running down her face. Her hair dripping. She is reacting to a breakup. Badly. The camera clings to her distorted face as she reels from the news apparently just delivered by her boyfriend, James (Kentucker Audley) and is by turns… Read More »

Tagged With: alienation, breakup, Emotional intimacy, friendship, lake house

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

November 13, 2015 By Leave a Comment

MISS YOU ALREADY Catherine Hardwicke

Full of emotion, but never cheap sentimentality, there is a refreshing honesty in the way MISS YOU ALREADY depicts Milly’s battle with cancer, including being called out by being called a cancer bully by Jess. It’s one of the things we talked about on October 9th, 2015, as well as shopping with Jacqueline Bissett, shaving… Read More »

Tagged With: breast cancer, cancer, cancer bully, female bonding, Frances de la Tour, friendship, head shaving, Heathcliff, Mayo Clinic, mother-daughter relationship, nun crush, Oscar Isaac, Seth Maxwell, stage-four cancer, The Thirst Foundation, Vatican, Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire moors

Perry Blackshear, MacLeod Andrews & Evan Dumouchel Insist that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE

February 18, 2015 By 1 Comment

Perry Blackshear, MacLeod Andrews & Evan Dumouchel Insist that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE

  THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE is a first-rate existential horror film, as well as a psychological thriller. I got the same vibe watching it that I had gotten watching PI and BRICK, the maiden efforts of Darren Aronofsky and Rian Johnson respectively. Writer/director Perry Blackshear understands more than just how to create evocative, even sumptuous, visuals, he knows… Read More »

Tagged With: ABSENTIA, alienation, apocalypse, cinema, Danny Boyle, dating, delusions, demons, director, emotional trauma, Evan Dumouchel, existential, friendship, horror, indie film, interview, isolation, loneliness, MacLeod Andrews, male-bonding rituals, Mike Flanagan, movie, OCCULUS, Pantheon of Evil, paranoia, paranormal, Perry Blackshear, primal fear, reality, schizophrenia, screenwriter, self-help, Slamdance, sound design, SUNSHINE, suspense, THE LOOK LIKE PEOPLE, thriller

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