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THE TROUBLE WITH JESSICA

April 30, 2025 By Leave a Comment

THE TROUBLE WITH JESSICA

Falling into the subgenre of dinner parties gone disastrously wrong, THE TROUBLE WITH JESSICA, an astringent black comedy of ethics, finds five people who have been friends since their university days being forced by one of them to re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other. By the end of what will… Read More »

Tagged With: absurd gusto, bestselling author, clafoutis, developer, dinner party, ethics, lawyer, making friends with depression, rampant gusto, social worker, suicide

A HAUNTING IN VENICE

September 15, 2023 By Leave a Comment

A HAUNTING IN VENICE

A HAUNTING IN VENICE finds master detective Hercule Poirot (director Kenneth Branagh) in a somber mood. Two world wars and first-hand knowledge of the evil that men (and women) do have prompted him to become a virtual recluse in Venice, where swarms of eager would-be clients are forcefully rebuffed by the formidable bodyguard (Vincenzo Di… Read More »

Tagged With: Agatha Christie, dark and stormy night, haunted palazzo, medium, seance, shell-shock, suicide, Venice, whodunnit

SMILE

September 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

SMILE

Among the primates, expect for humans, widening the mouth and showing the teeth is a signal of aggression. In humans, it’s called a smile, and I’m sure that anthropologists have made much hay about that behavioral disconnect between us and our cousins. Parker Finn, in his feature film debut as writer and director, also makes… Read More »

Tagged With: curse, hallucinations, psychiatry, PTSD, suicide, Trauma

MEN

May 20, 2022 By 1 Comment

MEN

Click here to listen to the flashback interview with Alex Garland for EX MACHINA. One of the many striking images from Alex Garland’s MEN is of a serene autumnal landscape with a dark and looming entrance to a tunnel. It all but shimmers in the late afternoon sun, and then a raindrop falls into it,… Read More »

Tagged With: bloody nose, English countryside, Green Man, Marilyn Monroe mask, Sheela Na Gig, stalking, suicide, vicar

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

May 14, 2022 By Leave a Comment

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

Jerrod Carmichal is a quietly compelling presence in his directorial debut, ON THE COUNT OF THREE. As Val, half of a suicidal duo out to make the last day of their lives count for something, or at least to make it a day less depressing than the ones that have so far rounded out their… Read More »

Tagged With: bully, guns, mulch, psychiatry failure, reason for living, revenge, suicide

THE NIGHT HOUSE

August 22, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE NIGHT HOUSE

In THE NIGHT HOUSE, star/producer Rebecca Hall dares to give us a female protagonist who does not ask us to like her. In fact, she all but dares us not to. Yet, in a brilliant performance that combines pain and vitriol, she makes us empathize with a new widow who may or may not be… Read More »

Tagged With: grief, lake house, secret life, shadow figure, suicide, suspicion, widow

LOVING VINCENT

October 22, 2017 By 1 Comment

LOVING VINCENT

The subjects of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpieces come to startling, vivid, and enchanting life in LOVING VINCENT, a film of enormous beauty and sharp insight. Created by rotoscoping actors, and then painting each animation cell by hand in oils, the result is an immersive experience of how the artist saw the world while also questioning… Read More »

Tagged With: Armand Roulin, Auvers-sure-Oise, Dr. Gachet, hand-painted animation, mystery, oil painting, suicide, Theo Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh

WE ARE X — Stephen Kijak Interview

October 28, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WE ARE X — Stephen Kijak Interview

It all started with a picture.  Stephen Kijak, who has made a career of documenting rock stars, thought he had seen it all, but there was something about Yoshiki that he couldn’t shake. When I spoke with the filmmaker on October 26, 2016 about his documentary, WE ARE X, it was one of the first… Read More »

Tagged With: David Bowie, documentary, Gene Simmons, Japanese Glam Rock, John Battsek, Madison Square Garden, Passion Pictures, Pink Lady and Jeff, rock gods, Scott Walker, Stephen Kijak, suicide, Toshi, X Japan, Yoshiki

Signe Baumane and Sturgis Warner on Living with ROCKS IN MY POCKETS

December 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Signe Baumane and Sturgis Warner on Living with ROCKS IN MY POCKETS

Signe Baumane was asked by an audience member after a screening of ROCKS IN MY POCKETS about how to find meaning in life. It was a big question prompted by a provocative, insightful film about clinical depression. Her answer, which comes towards the end of our interview, was one of the most beautiful meditations on… Read More »

Tagged With: black humor, clinical depression, Latvia, manic depression, Signe Baumane, Sturgis Warner, suicide

THE HOURS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOURS begins with a suicide, a famous one at that. Virginia Woolf with a fierce deliberateness puts a heavy stone in her pocket and walks into a river. We see her head duck silently into the water and then her body floating delicately away, pulled by the current with a gentle urgency. By the… Read More »

Tagged With: AIDS, book to film, Feminism, LGBT, literature, suicide, Virginia Woolf

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