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Rotterdam Review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Shadow of Fire Examines the Scars of War with Harrowing Restraint
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
Shinya Tsukamoto’s Shadow of Fire begins as a troubling but measured film, but about a half-hour in something happens that shatters its quietude. Suddenly, a man who to this point has been impotent and deferential throws a small boy out...
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Rotterdam Review: Creature Horror The Soul Eater Offers Anachronistic Genre Thrills
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
You don’t need to have lived in the proverbial middle of nowhere to understand the kind of terror Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s The Soul Eater mines from the fictional Roquenoix. As shot by Simon Roca, this remote hamlet in...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Luis Buñuel, Nicholas Ray, SAPPH-O-RAMA & More
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA massive run of Luis Buñuel’s Mexican films begins; “To Save and Project,” continues. Film at Lincoln Center“Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s” brings films by Tati,...
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New to Streaming: Farewell My Concubine, Dario Argento Panico, Kokomo City, The Beekeeper & More
by admin|3 years ago|The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. The Beekeeper (David Ayer) It’s the time of year for smooth-brained relaxation. Moviegoers can...
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Orion and the Dark
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
DreamWorks and Netflix’s “Orion and the Dark” does the Pixar Thing better than most recent Pixar movies. It so blatantly cribs from the Prime Pixar notebook of humanizing the impossible in films like “Inside Out” and “Toy Story” that it actually...
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How to Have Sex
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
A feature length debut, Molly Manning Walker’s “How to Have Sex” is a blisteringly real survey of female coming of age. Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), Em (Enva Lewis), and Skye (Lara Peake) are three teen best friends who go on holiday...
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The Promised Land
by admin|3 years ago|Roger Ebert
"The Promised Land" is about ten movies in one. It's a history lesson with a central figure driven by an impossible quest. There are bands of outlaws, sadistic aristocrats, and downtrodden peasants. There's a little romance, a lot of torture,...
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KNEECAP
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of Kneecap. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom,” Michael Fassbender’s IRA fugitive repeatedly tells...
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WE GROWN NOW Trailer: Two Boys Navigate Changing Times in Minhal Baig’s Independent Spirit Award Nominee
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Writer-director Minhal Baig returns with a new coming-of-age tale set in her native Chicago. We Grown Now centers on the city’s Cabrini-Green housing district in 1992. It follows two young boys who are best friends and neighbors, played by first-time...
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A DIFFERENT MAN
by admin|3 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of A Different Man. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Aaron Schimberg in his third feature film, A Different Man, sets himself into a...
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