A Harrowing German Odyssey
I will never forget my roundtable interview with Thomas Kretschmann more than a decade ago in support of the Roman …
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Arthur Newman
Yet another holdout from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Arthur Newman, based on a script from screenwriting veteran Becky …
The Company You Keep
Robert Redford teams up with Steven Soderbergh’s screenwriting cohort Lem Dobbs (The Limey and Haywire) to adapt Neil Gordon’s novel …
The Reconstituted Cincinnati Film Society Heads ‘Upstream’
Steady buzz for the Cincinnati Film Society (CFS) reboot emerged from the underground thanks to recent screenings at the Northside …
Ginger & Rosa
Novels tend to use historic moments as the framing backdrop for intimate relationships, weaving factual strands with personal threads to …
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
So often, documentaries about people and communities that live outside the modern social framework present these factions as curiosities, maintaining …
The Place Beyond the Pines
Critical analysis involves cutting through the clutter and noise, which can sometimes be quite difficult. For example, I caught The …
The Sapphires
The premise of Australian director Wayne Blair’s period musical drama, The Sapphires, reads like a Down Under version of Dreamgirls …
Danny Boyle Puts Us in a Nolan-esque ‘Trance’
The setup for Trance, the new release from Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) is tantalizingly delicious. High-end art auctioneer …
Brooklyn Castle
In much the same way that Bully sparked outrage over the challenging conditions this generation of children face against one …
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