The Quest For Strangeness: Getting It Down One Story At A Time
Why worry about the finances of the international film industry? It’s all ones and zeroes, ones and zeroes, one story at a time.
Film Top 5: March 2020
Eleven films on 70; forty-seven films from twenty-seven EU nations; and three singularities from Romania, the bayou and Chicago, Illinois.
Momentary, Momentous: The Passion of Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Lavishing in moments both secret and shared, rippling with textures and gestures, Sciamma’s film of essences is essential.
Streak Smarts: The Safdies and Uncut Gems
“Mysteries of capitalism” and the gambler’s drive: Adam Sandler and the Safdies toss a doozy into our laps.
Film Top 5: February 2020
Siskel marks its thirtieth year of films from Iran; blasts from the past from Otto Preminger, Brian De Palma, Anthony Mann and Rudy Ray Moore.
Walking Dread: A Review of Zombi Child
Stylish French filmmaker delves into Haitian voodoo and colonialist legacy: conversation ensues.
Lovingly Lurid Lovecraft: A Review of Color Out of Space
Lovingly lurid adaptation of a 1927 H. P. Lovecraft story from the too-long missing director of “Hardware” and “Dust Devil.”
Shelf Expression: At The Video Store With James Westby
In its extended production, James Westby’s documentary about the lure and smell of videostores outlasted many of its locations, but movie love endures.
“Too Modern For Me”? New Movies Are Being Born
The “modern” is all around us, but often, variations, visions, breakthroughs go unrecognized.
In Media Rescue: Sam Mendes on 1917
The heartbeat of two soldiers racing against time in World War I.
