Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023

Nature provides much of the soundtrack to " All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt," a poised and occasionally transcendent debut from writer-director Raven Jackson.

The sounds of crickets and birds, flowing water and the wind in the long summer grass are only sporadically punctured by a song at a...

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023

Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early '60s.

But for Priscilla Beaulieu, teenage fantasy became a strange and surreal reality. Sofia Coppola's "Priscilla," starring Cailee...

Friday, Oct. 27, 2023

On The Holdovers (Focus Features), director Alexander Payne fell in love with making period films. From the experience, Payne--an avid history reader who majored in the subject in college--said he realized that a period movie is “the next best thing to time travel.”

At the same...

Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023

One Emmy-winning cinematographer collaborated for the first time with Alexander Payne, taking on a feature film which reunited the director with actor Paul Giamatti.

Another DP sought and got a return engagement with writer-director Rebecca Miller--this time on an emotionally relevant...

Monday, Oct. 23, 2023

Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in " The Holdovers," a textured, nostalgic and often funny piece about three lonely and mismatched souls stuck together over Christmas break. It's a keeper and possibly even destined to become a classic.

The holiday...

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023

In "Nyad," there are two feats of perseverance on display. First, there is the ceaseless determination of Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) to accomplish a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida across 103 miles of open, shark-infested waters. Then there is the mettle of Nyad's support team to tolerate...

Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023

Errol Morris's conversation with the late David Cornwell in " The Pigeon Tunnel " is fascinating even without the filmmaking flourishes.

Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, was the spy-turned-novelist whose tales of espionage and betrayal defined an era, gave literary...

Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023

There tends to be lots of fast talking and fast moving in Martin Scorsese films, often from shifty types trying to get away with something. Or sometimes, simply because the master filmmaker has so much to pack in.

But in "Killers of the Flower Moon," everything seems to slow down, and...

Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023

A moment from years ago keeps replaying in Martin Scorsese 's mind.

When Akira Kurosawa was given an honorary Academy Award in 1990, the then 80-year-old Japanese filmmaker of "Seven Samurai" and "Ikiru," in his brief, humble speech, said he hadn't yet grasped the full essence of cinema...

Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023

It opens with a clock counting down until show time — the dropped stomach, rollercoaster slowly encroaching its apex sensation — and then, a gentle fake out. Taylor Swift is heard before she is seen. "It's been a long time..." her voice carries. Then the drop hits: an abridged performance of "...

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