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BLACK BAG

March 12, 2025 By Leave a Comment

BLACK BAG

BLACK BAG is a scathingly brilliant take on truth, lies, and the sanctity of marriage, and the perfect vehicle for Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender. A good marriage that is, such as the one enjoyed by George Woodhouse (Fassbender) and Kathryn St. Jean (Blanchett), British spies with the highest security clearance They are the perfect… Read More »

Tagged With: Britain, lie detector, lies, marriage, McGuffin, mordant humor, polygraph, spies, spy sattelite, truth

LUCE

August 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LUCE

LUCE is less a film than a political dialectic on race and class in these United States, and a brilliant, exquisitely performed one at that. Told with a deliberate, sometimes maddening ambiguity, it challenges the audience at every turn about where the truth lies, and the limits of familial loyalty. By the end, not every… Read More »

Tagged With: child soldier, classism, high school, lying, racism, stage to screen, truth

PHONE BOOTH

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

PHONE BOOTH

One of those wise old Greeks, perhaps it was Socrates, said that the unexamined life is not worth living. And in PHONE BOOTH, there’s a psycho with a gun who’s taken that bit of philosophy way too literally. This being a Joel Schumacher film, he of FLATLINERS and BATMAN and other flights of high-flown fancy,… Read More »

Tagged With: stand-off, terrorize, truth

Andrew Jarecki on CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Andrew Jarecki on CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS

For a debut film, Andrew Jarecki couldn’t have picked a more controversial or attention-grabbing subject that child sexual abuse. Yet his film dealing with the emotional impact on the family of the accused father and son transcends sensationalism and becomes a consideration on the nature of truth and universality of family life. When I spoke to… Read More »

Tagged With: Arnold Friedman, child abuse, David Friedman, debut film, director, documentary, family life, film distribution, Jesse Friedman, pedophilia, true crime, truth

Tony Gilroy Pulls the Strings on MICHAEL CLAYTON

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tony Gilroy Pulls the Strings on MICHAEL CLAYTON

Tony Gilroy is no stranger to the inner workings of law firms. He researched how things operated while writing the screenplay for THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE, but with MICHAEL CLAYTON, which marks his directorial debut, he kept things strictly out of the supernatural realm while still exploring the evil at work in the world. When we… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, corporate ethics, director, directorial debut, drama, film, George Clooney, law firms, lawsuits, lies, loneliness, madness, madness as sanity, MICHAEL CLAYTON, movie, narrative, sanity, Tilda Swinton, Tony Gilroy, truth, writer

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