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Classic Film Review: Hemmings and Redgrave, The Yardbirds and 1960s London — Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)
A young photographer is shaken to his core when he finally sees the beyond the Mod London surface gloss he so ably captures in “Blow-Up,” a vivid snapshot of a moment in time and a patient, chilling thriller about a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1966, antonioni, david-hemmings, mod-london, sarah-miles, swinging-60s, vanessa-redgrave
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Movie Review: An Oscar-nominated animated “Incredible Journey” from Latvia — “Flow”
“Flow” is a futuristic Franco-Latvian fantasy, an animated sci-fi version of Disney’s classic animal odyssey, “The Incredible Journey.” Gints Zilbalodis’ film, an Oscar nominee as Best Animated Feature and as Best International Feature, is a dialogue-free travelogue that follows a … Continue reading
Movie Review: Home Invaders show up with an Agenda — “Everyone Is Going to Die”
“Everyone is Going to Die” is a generic home invasion thriller that clumsily struggles with the #MeToo “message” grafted onto it. It opens with the usual “Funny Games/’The ‘Strangers’ franchise” franchise attack, serves up hints that this assault isn’t as … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: High End Horror ensues, because He’s Going to “Bring Her Back”
The director Philippou brothers behind “The Babadook” and “Talk to Me” landed Sally Hawkins for the lead in this chiller. A24 has it, and that’s almost all we need to know, right? May 30.
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Movie Review: Teachers Accuse, Debate and Judge a Mother and her Son named “Armand”
Something that happened at school is debated and “measures” are weighed and furiously argued and even experienced through interpretive dance in the challenging but slow feature filmmaking debut of Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of the great actress Liv Ullmann. … Continue reading
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Netflixable? Wedding Mayhem comes to a Swedish Couple promising to “Love Forever”
“Love Forever” is an overpopulated Swedish wedding farce that offers more possibilities than payoffs. Writer-director Staffan Lindberg throws in lots of tropes and “types” and reaches for plenty of low-hanging fruit in this comedy about city Swedes shoehorned into a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Sexually-attracted StepSiblings in a Rich New Setting — “My Fault: London”
Argentine-born Sevillian novelist Mercedes Ron has made a pretty good living off her rich-stepsiblings-incest intellectual property, the “Culpables Trilogy” — “Culpa Mia,” “Culpa Tuya” and “Culpa Nuestra,” which translates as “My Fault,” “Your Fault” and “Our Fault.” Being young and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Scatological Parable where Nothing is Wasted — “Okiku and the World (Sekai no Okiku)”
Attention to detail is one thing we typically celebrate in a cinematic period piece, a movie meant to transport us to a particular corner of the past. But when it comes to the Edo Period Japanese romance “Okiku and the … Continue reading
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Documentary Preview: Andy Kaufman, you think we “get” him yet? “Thank You Very Much”
March 25, a lot of folks who remember, puzzled over and were impressed by Andy K. weigh in.
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Movie Preview: An Intimate and Epic Love Story set against California Horse racing — “On Swift Horses”
The land of opportunity, the state of possibilities and “the love that dare not speak its name.” Or “names.” Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva and Sasha Calle star in this period piece based on a Shannon Pufahl … Continue reading
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