Review: Breaking the Waves
When you gaze at all the wonders that “Breaking the Waves” possesses you have to submit to Emily Watson’s eyes. Are they the most exhilarating orbs owned by a British actor since Michael...
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“Homme Less” in DOC NYC: An Interview with Director Thomas Wirthensohn and Subject Mark Reay
Making its North American debut in the Metropolis section at DOC NYC, Thomas Wirthensohn’s beautifully crafted “Homme Less” follows the quintessentially eccentric New Yorker Mark Reay. At 52,...
LFF Dispatch 4: Brad Pitt’s “Fury”
Irony rides a pale horse. Where have all the Panzers gone? The architects of blitzkrieg have been reduced to legs and tails and hooves as Patton and Zhukov strangle the Thousand Year Reich. Oblivious...
LFF 2014 Dispatch No 3: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and History of Fear
The remarkable and sinister “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” begins in abrupt fashion. Jeremiah a Kentucky farmer wrestles with his daughter Sarah. She stabs him with a headless chicken, an act both...
Being Barack: An Interview with “Bronx Obama” Director Ryan Murdock
Originally titled “The Audacity of Louis Ortiz,” Ryan Murdock’s “Bronx Obama” is a study of the American Dream gone wacky. In 2008 a former Verizon worker of Puerto Rican descent shaved off...
LFF 2014 Dispatch No 2: Fishing Without Nets, Flow and Jamie Marks is Dead.
Expanded from Cutter Hodierne’s own short film of the same name, “Fishing Without Nets” is the flipside of “Captain Phillips.” Hodierne explores Somali pirates from the point of view of...
LFF 2014 Dispatch No 1: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, Tokyo Tribe and The Man In The Orange Jacket.
Remember when movies were movies? Remember when voice–overs were the words of god on celluloid, balls out and bombastic? Remember Cannon Films? “Cannon Films the home of high power, high voltage...
Review: Frank
How do you get inside the head of a man whose head is inside a papier-mâché head? In the 80s and early 90s Frank Sidebottom’s painted noggin was a strangely familiar sight on Britain’s...
Hello Kitty Avengers
Have you ever wondered what the Avengers would look like if their costumes were by supercute Sanrio brand Hello Kitty? Well, wonder no more as the internet turns the superheroes into something more...
Review: The Rover
Director David Michôd’s dystopian Western “The Rover” is a Spartan, intimate affair played out over vast distances in the Australian outback. Set ten years after a global economic collapse the...