Talking Screens, May 28-June 3, 2021: Cruella Steals Its Show | Music Box + Mubi is Epic
“A Quiet Place Part II,” “Cruella,” “Playtime,” “Days of Heaven”… summer movies begin.
Talking Screens, May 21-27, 2021: Barry Jenkins on the “Black Gaze” | French Cinema | Ten Days of Free Palestinian Films
Theatrical grosses for the second weekend of May weren’t impressive: theaters are increasing capacity, but there’s still a reluctance: either to the untested waters of moviegoing, or to the pictures on wider release.
Film Top 5: May 2021
What to watch in May.
Talking Screens, May 14-20, 2021: Melvin van Peebles Debut | What Chris Rock Saw | Guy Ritchie Does Ritchie
Theaters are opening, capacity increasing, and the choices of what to watch, onscreen, in virtual cinema bookings, streaming and online, pile up. Barry Jenkins’ “The Underground Railroad” is the week’s masterful, all-consuming marvel.
Breath, Taken: Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad
Barry Jenkins’ cinematic mural from Colson Whitehead’s slim novel does not sprawl, but span, encompass, embrace, weep, leap and dream; oh how it dreams.
The Gunda Years: The World As Barnyard
There’s a purity in the results of “Gunda”
Talking Screens: Thunder Force Limps, Reeder vs. Akerman, History is Made at Night Shines
Jennifer Reeder converses with “Jeanne Dielman”; “History is Made At Night” finds harbor on Blu-ray; “Thunder Force” Is like that clumsy kitten you hope grows up to be strong, even fierce; “Gunda” paces the life of the farm.
