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Cannes Review: The Apprentice Is a Deep-Dive Diss of Donald Trump and the American Soul
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
For a biopic about Donald Trump, The Apprentice is surprisingly concerned with other things. The film has exactly what you might expect and somehow a curiosity around every corner, a familiar historical intrigue firmly planted in a tonal shock. The...
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The Shrouds | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David Cronenberg’s latest, The Shrouds, a glum examination marrying death and technology. Once again, Cronenberg’s central...
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The Legacy of David Bordwell; or, The Memorial Service as Network Narrative
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The memorial for film scholar David Bordwell was as funny, erudite, and thorough as the master’s own writing on cinema. Organized by his widow and regular writing partner Kristin Thompson, it was also an example of a type of storytelling...
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East of Noon | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Noon Gloom: Elkoussy Mounts Shadowy, Allegorical Fantasy An industrial wasteland outside of a specific time or place provides the backdrop for Hala Elkoussy’s ingenious, but somewhat languid sophomore film East of Noon (Sharq 12). The film’s relationship to music and its...
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A Conversation with John Waters (CRY-BABY)
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Baltimore-based filmmaker John Waters—aka “The Pope of Trash”—began his career in the 1960s as a provocateur, directing a series of proudly outrageous features on microscopic budgets, with drag queen Divine as his frequent star. His many early works include Pink...
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Cannes Review: Renate Reinsve Proves Brilliant In Halfdan Ullmann Tønde’s Debut Armand
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
How is a child’s life different from that of adults today? What is it like growing up around stimuli, in a world that is always-online, and with varying degrees of supervision? Is complete safeguarding even possible? These are questions contemporary...
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Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 Wastes Its Potential
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
It’s okay for stories to end, and when I rolled credits on 2017's “Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice,” I thought Ninja Theory, its developer, understood that as well. Senua, a woman who hears voices and was thought cursed by those around her,...
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A Vittorio De Sica Masterwork is Restored in New Trailer for Shoeshine
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
While certainly best-known for Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica’s vast, varied body of work is worth diving into. This June, those in NYC can experience quite a taste of it with four films by the director at Film at Lincoln...
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TRYING S4 Review: So You Still Want to Be a Parent?
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Rafe Spall and Esther Smith star in a warm and witty British series, now streaming on Apple TV+. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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A Mystery Unfolds In First Trailer for Alain Guiraudie’s Cannes Premiere Misericordia
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The Cannes crush can be so unforgiving. This year’s case in point: Misericordia has premiered to relatively little notice despite being the latest by the great Alain Guiraudie. This is no doubt owed to placing out of competition and into...
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