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Tag Archives: reviews
Review: TFF 2012: Pushkin’s Real Good! The Russian Winter
This review originally appeared on Capital New York. Standing with his bandmates on an ice-encrusted platform somewhere in Siberia, as workers chip the ice off the train wheels, Grammy-nominated artist and producer John Forté uses the word “quixotic,” casually, in … Continue reading
Review: TFF 2012: An Accidental Activist? Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story
This review originally appeared on Capital New York. In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright gave an impromptu interview to filmmaker Frank De Felitta, who was visiting Wright’s hometown of Greenwood, Mississippi to do a documentary for NBC on racism in … Continue reading
NYFF 2011: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
Originally published at Capital New York, for my coverage of the 2011 New York Film Festival From its magnificent opening, reminiscent of a high-concept couture spread in Vogue Italia, with excruciating slo-mo, and a parade of surrealistic tableaux, all to … Continue reading
Review: The Company Men: I Pity the Jerks
This review originally appeared on Capital New York. It’s hard to feel sorry for the laid-off executives (Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Chris Cooper) in The Company Men. They have existed in a bubble of privilege and status for … Continue reading