March 5, 2020

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

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Set in the 18th century on the remote shores of Brittany, C él ine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is a phenomenon of a film...
September 21, 2018

AN UNSUNG LEGEND: ETHAN HAWKE'S "BLAZE"

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  If you have the chance to see Ethan Hawkes’ beautiful new film “Blaze” in the theater, make the effort. The story recounts the life...
September 1, 2018

Rob Robbins on Summer Movies' Inflection Point: A Guest Essay

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  My dear friend Rob Robbins and I watched these movies together. His commentary on them is far superior to what mine would have been (a...
July 8, 2018

EXISTENTIALIST HORSERADISH: Paul Schrader’s World and “First Reformed”

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“Faith is in its essence simply a matter of will…, to believe is to wish to believe, and to believe in God is, before and above all, to ...
July 2, 2018

“Nana” and “Hitler versus Picasso and the Others”: Two Timely World War II Documentaries

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Two recent documentaries, both directorial feature film debuts, approach the memory of World War II from distinctly different perspectives. ...
January 9, 2018

AND THE OSCAR DOCUMENTARY SHORTLIST IS...

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If there were one word to characterize this year’s selection of possible documentary Oscar nominees, it would have to be nihilism. From atta...
August 24, 2017

BRIGSBY BEAR: AN UNLIKELY SAVIOR

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If you missed the movingly sweet indie film “Brigsby Bear,” you are not alone. My theater cancelled their scheduled weekend showings after a...