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AFTER LOUIE — Vincent Gagliostro Interview

June 24, 2017 By Leave a Comment

AFTER LOUIE — Vincent Gagliostro Interview

Vincent Gagliostro was an ideal person to ask my pop-quiz question during the second Frameline press day on June 23, 2017. The question was why arts are important in the age of Trump, and Gagliostro, whose film, AFTER LOUIE is the festival’s closing night film, is a man who has worked in many media, some… Read More »

Tagged With: activism, After Louie, AIDS, Allan Cumming, art, history, LGBTQI, protest, survivor's guilt, Vincent Gagliostro

Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff Bring MR PEABODY & SHERMAN to Glorious Life

January 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff Bring MR PEABODY & SHERMAN to Glorious Life

You better be careful when you take on a classic.  For more than one generation, Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman were must-see television, as were the other denizens of the Jay Ward animation world, which includes Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right. Other adaptations for the big screen of Ward’s work have not been successful,… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, cinema, comedy, Dreamworks, fantasy, film, history, Jay Ward, kids, movie, Mr. Peabody, musical, narrative, nostalgia, Rob Minkoff, Sherman, Tiffany Ward, time travel

David Burris — THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

January 8, 2015 By Leave a Comment

David Burris — THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

When I spoke with David Burris on December 18, 2014, one of the things I most wanted to talk to him about was getting the accents right in THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT. It’s set in North Carolina, and he used actors from such far-flung places as Australia, England, and Los Angeles. We went on to… Read More »

Tagged With: Adelaide Clemens, book to film, cinema, Civil War, David Burris, director, grits, Haley Joel Osment, history, Jane Rash, Jeremy Irvine, MInka Kelley, movie, music, narrative, New Zealand, Noah Wylie, regional music, Ron Rash, Shane Danielsen, Steve Earl, Survivor, West Virginia, WORLD MADE STRAIGHT

THE BETTER ANGELS

November 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE BETTER ANGELS

No plaster saint, nor marble effigy of Abraham Lincoln is to be found in THE BETTER ANGELS. Based on the recollections of Lincoln’s surviving family, as spoken by his cousin about his boyhood in Indiana, this is a Lincoln before the legends had taken root, the Lincoln of great promise whose intellectual curiosity and love… Read More »

Tagged With: A.J. Edwards. Terrence Malick, Abraham Lincoln, American history, black and white cinematography, cinema, drama, film, history, Jason Clark, movies

CENTURION

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CENTURION

CENTURION mixes a thoroughly honorable high-mindedness with frequent and jarring examples of torture porn. While the ethics of using human beings as pawns in political games is the central theme of the story, the execution is less than astute. What may have aspired to be an intelligent action flick is instead a standard chase flick… Read More »

Tagged With: ancient Britain, history, military, Ninth Legion, occupation army, Picts, politics, Roman Army, Woad

BLIND SPOT: HITLER’S SECRETARY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BLIND SPOT is an oral history released as a feature documentary. Ordinarily, this would be a bad idea, oral histories being low-tech and single camera, but the subject is Traudl Junge and her history is of her years as Hitler’s secretary. Filmmakers Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer must have known they were on to something… Read More »

Tagged With: Fall of Berlin, Goebbles, history, Hitler, Holocaust, World War II

KINSEY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

KINSEY opens with the face of Peter Sarsgaard in close-up looking directly into the camera and asking questions of a sexual nature. An offscreen voice stops him when he uses a euphemism for a sexual act. No, says the voice that we will shortly learn is Kinsey’s, it won’t work unless you are completely straightforward,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bill Condon, bio-pic. drama, class structure, director, history, human sexuality, interview, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, narrative, prudery, social attitudes, study of human sexuality, weight gain, writer

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK

In a lesser film about Edward R. Murrow and the way he used television to bring down Joseph McCarthy, there would have been the obligatory unburdening scene with his wife. He would articulate the risks involved in what he was undertaking personally, professionally, and financially, have an emotional breakdown of some sort, and Mrs. Murrow… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, CBS, David Strathairn, Edward R. Murrow, Eisenhower, Free Speech, George Clooney, Golden Age of Television, Grant Heslov, history, House UnAmerican Activities Committee, HUAC, Joseph McCarthy, media, military-industrial complex, narrative, television, television news, witch hunts

BOBBY

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It pains me to have to slam a film that so obviously has its heart in the right place, but BOBBY is such an inept and misguided effort that there’s no other option. Taking place on the day when and in the place where, the Ambassador Hotel, that the title character was assassinated, it’s a… Read More »

Tagged With: assasination, history, kennedy, politics

LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA

The key moment in Clint Eastwood’s LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA is when General Kuribayashi, the commander of the doomed Japanese forces defending the eponymous island from Amercan invasion, stops the summary execution of two soldiers by their immediate commanding officer for having committed the crime of not dying at their post. Kuribayashi, played by Ken Watanabe, tells… Read More »

Tagged With: history, Japanese Army, Pacific Theater, World War II

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