Vishniac (video review)
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Tag: four stars
They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those filmmakers whose filmography would be the envy of any amount of unsuccessful but still aspiring young directors struggling to make a name for themselves. His best-known work is 1992’s BELLE EPOQUE which brought him the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. I admire that film a great deal, […]
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
It is a fact that the two most destructive forces of mankind are greed and racism. These two things have born more chaos and death than any disease or famine that you can name. And yes, It has been, whether we like it or not, part of the make-up of American history almost from the […]
The 95th Academy Award Nominees: ‘All That Breathes’
Nominations:• Best Documentary Feature Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes is a deeply moving and deeply introspective documentary that uses the poetry of observation to convey the information that the natural world is being strangled by the reckless impulses of mankind. This, of course, is nothing new, but the movie doesn’t shame us. It doesn’t rub […]
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
At this point, the last two things that you might expect a Star Wars movie to be are unexpected and unpredictable. After ten theatrical features, you might imagine that you could call every twist and turn; every fiber of this saga seems to have been mined until the surprises are long gone. It is refreshing […]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017)
It is disturbing how inherent violence is in the human collective. It is a never-ending cycle that goes round and round and will continue to do so as long as humans stand on two legs and are able to chart the course of their own destiny. The It is a hard fact that the movies […]
Jackie (2016)
There is an odd musical cue at the very beginning of Pablo Larrain’s historical drama Jackie that sounds as if it might be more at home in a horror movie. The best way to describe it is to ask you to imagine that the score is imitating an oncoming train. This musical beat plays several […]
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #4: Gip (2016)
It is not exactly news to report that a very large, significant part of Alabama history is written in the African-American experience. From slavery, through The Civil War, the Jim Crow era, The Civil Rights Years, right up to the current day their often bittersweet history is as much a part of Alabama as the […]
The Jungle Book (2016)
It shouldn’t surprise anyone when Disney shamelessly toots its own horn. The legacy of this paragon of family entertainment has such a rich history and such of wealth of classics to its name that you sort of aren’t surprised to find it congratulating itself. That may come from the fact that recently they’ve been kind […]
