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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

LONDON HAS FALLEN

March 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LONDON HAS FALLEN

Full disclosure, I was not a fan of OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, the previous film exploring the victim/savior relationship between President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and crack Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler).  Thus, I was not hoping for much when I approached LONDON HAS FALLEN. The trick to staying sane in this business is… Read More »

Tagged With: car chase, funeral, impending fatherhood, London, President, Secret Service, terrorism, terrorist attack

GARDEN STATE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Only rarely does a film as profound, as rich, and as deeply affecting as GARDEN STATE come along. Even more rarely is it the handiwork of a first-time filmmaker. That would be Zack Braff, known for his role as the philosophically harried intern on the subversively wicked comedy, “Scrubs”. Braff is Andrew Largeman, a struggling… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, debut film, director, funeral, gravedigger, mental illness, narrative, prescripton drugs, waiter, writer, Zack Braff

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