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Tag Archives: drama
Love Streams: “A Fitful Flow”, by Dennis Lim
Yesterday was a good day in a very upsetting week. My copies of Love Streams arrived, via Amazon. It’s a major moment for Cassavetes fans, some of whom have never had the opportunity to even see what is considered his … Continue reading
Love Streams: Now Available
John Cassavetes’ Love Streams is now available for purchase, either from the Criterion site, or on Amazon, or Target.com, or wherever else. It’s release day! It’s an exciting day, even with the sad news of Robin Williams’ death. A video-essay, … Continue reading
This Tuesday: Criterion’s Release of Love Streams
August 12 is the release date of John Cassavetes’ Love Streams. My video-essay on the genius acting of Gena Rowlands will be included in the special features. Available for pre-order!
Joe (2013); directed by David Gordon Green
Joe barely got a release. It was in New York for about 4 days, and I missed it. The fact that Joe, a great American film, in my opinion, couldn’t even get distribution is evidence of the dire-ness of the … Continue reading
Computer Chess (2013); directed by Andrew Bujalski
In 1984, a group of tech nerds, programmers, and chess fanatics gather in a dingy Holiday Inn for an annual chess tournament. Different teams across America have been busy developing chess programs on computers, and the goal is to develop … Continue reading
Closed Curtain (2014); directed by Jafar Panahi
A man enters a seaside villa and before doing anything else goes through every room, closing all the curtains. There are huge windows on every floor, looking out on the vast expanse of sea. There are a lot of curtains … Continue reading
Review: The Strange Little Cat (2014)
“The Strange Little Cat,” a debut feature by German director Ramon Zurcher, is such a strange little movie. I can’t stop thinking about it. My review is now up at Rogerebert.com.
Review: Ida (2014); directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Ida is one of those miraculous films where the images on the screen are so startling, so unique, so themselves, that the visuals take on a whole subterranean level of meaning, coursing beneath the actual plot. The power of the … Continue reading
“The New Yorker” on the Criterion release of Love Streams
“The movie is a mighty, intimate, kaleidoscopically subjective, bravely self-searching summation of a career, an era, and a life. For decades, it was a rare VHS tape, a treasured occasional revival screening, and, more recently, a covert YouTube treasure. Its … Continue reading
Boyhood (2014); directed by Richard Linklater
I was about to start off by saying “Movies like Boyhood…” and stopped myself. Because there are no other movies like Boyhood. There are other films about a boy coming of age, there are other films about a child becoming … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, reviews, Richard Linklater
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