Fresh off its Grand Jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and already one of the favorites to be on the shortlist for an Academy Award early next year, Nanfu Wang’s One Child Nation is a charged vision smart … Continue reading Review: ‘One Child Nation’
Two things stand out about Britt Poulton and Dan Savage’s Them That Follow. First, it’s an incredibly tough sit, as it prompted several walk-outs during its premiere screening at the 2019 Dallas International Film Festival, one of whom loudly proclaimed … Continue reading Review: ‘Them That Follow”
Documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield is not one to shy away from salacious material. Tackling candle-in-the-wind musical lives such as Kurt Cobain, Whitney Houston and Biggie and Tupac in previous non-fiction explorations, his latest film stays in line with the cult … Continue reading Review: ‘Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love’
At first, it may seem risible for a male director (Jake Scott, son of famed Ridley Scott) and a male screenwriter (Brad Inglesby, known for somber films like Out of the Furnace and Run All Night in which adrenalized male leads … Continue reading Review: ‘American Woman’
In the late 60’s and early 70’s, it took a group of filmmakers from across the pond to synthesize the airy, radically charged golden beauty of Hollywood (and Los Angeles in general) onto the big screen, such as Jacques Deray, … Continue reading Review: ‘Echo In the Canyon’
Frederic Tchang’s documentary peers into the life of a famed fashion designer. Continue reading Review: ‘Halston’
