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NYC Weekend Watch: Repo Man, The Big Lebowski, György Pálfi, mk2 & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumFilms by Oshima, Tony Scott, Alex Cox, John Carpenter, Abel Ferrara, and Tobe Hooper play in “Out of the 80s“; Le Samouraï continues in a new 4K restoration; Back to the Future plays on Sunday. Museum of Modern ArtA massive...
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Cannes Review: Savages is a Beautiful Stop-Motion Animation Exploring the Complexities of Modernity
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Eight years after My Life as a Zucchini premiered in Directors’ Fortnight en route to winning two Césars (and nabbing one Oscar nomination), Swiss director Claude Barras returns to Cannes with Savages, an emotionally resonant stop-motion fable that looks at...
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YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA Review: Daisy Ridley Vs. the Patriarchy
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
At every step in Joachim Rønning’s (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Kon-Tiki) gripping old-school adaptation of Glenn Stout’s non-fiction book, Young Woman and the Sea, Daisy Ridley’s based-on-real-life Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle faces...
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Exclusive Restoration Trailer for Belarusian Folk-Horror for The Savage Hunt of King Stakh
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Summer time is approaching, which means it is, of course, Belarusian folk-horror season. As part of Deaf Crocodile Films’ new collaboration with DiabolikDVD, the largest independent online distributor of specialized home video releases, their first release will be Valeri Rubinchik’s ultra-rare...
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Far, Far Away: How to Get People Going to Movies Again
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
What's broken in moviegoing? And how can it be fixed? Why do I ask?  Surprise: It's not because of the box office performance of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Tale" and "The Garfield Movie" over the 2024 Memorial Day weekend.  Sure, it was the worst such...
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A Conversation with Chris Wilcha (FLIPSIDE)
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Filmmaker Chris Wilcha has long struggled with the feeling that his most creative days are behind him, stuck as he is in the world of commercial work-for-hire. But a funny thing happened along the way towards middle-aged professional dissatisfaction: the...
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Young Woman and the Sea
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb in “Young Woman and the Sea.”   Ridley stars in this compelling biographical drama as Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Ederle accomplished this...
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Ren Faire
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between mocking and celebrating its incredibly unique subjects. I told a friend just now that I was reviewing a docuseries about a “Succession”-esque power struggle at a Renaissance fair,...
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What You Wish For
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse. At this moment, it weighs on this reviewer particularly heavily. “What You Wish For,” a picture written and directed by Nicholas Tomnay and starring Nick Stahl, is one...
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Robot Dreams
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination, a movie that uses the form of animated cinema to tell a story in a way that couldn’t be possible in any other medium. Without a word of...
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