Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021

Jane Campion and Kirsten Dunst admired one another before they'd ever met, but it was Campion who made the first move. 

She was enamored of Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides" and wrote Dunst a letter. There were talks of adapting an Alice Munro story, but it would be years until they'd...

Friday, Nov. 12, 2021

"Tick, tick... Boom!," Lin-Manuel Miranda's affectionate, well-crafted adaptation of Jonathan Larson's "rock monologue," captures all that's grand and beautiful about musical theater, and a little of what can make it insufferable, too. 

Miranda's film, his accomplished directorial debut,...

Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021

It's official, the Netflix TV series "Squid Game" will be back for a season two, even though most TV shows in South Korea run for just one season. But due to the show's global success, its creator and director said, "I almost feel like you leave us no choice."

"There's been so much...

Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021

If you had any doubt that Jeymes Samuel, the director of "The Harder They Fall" and the British musician known as the Bullits, loves Westerns, then you haven't heard him sing Dean Martin's "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" from John Ford's "Rio Bravo."

"When Dean Martin pops up in a movie, you...

Friday, Oct. 29, 2021

Director Orlando von Einsiedel has an innate knack--and affinity--for finding and following a small story with a limited number of protagonists and allowing that story to unfold to reveal bigger meanings and issues. But as we all have in one way or another had to adapt during the COVID-19 crisis...

Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021

Rarely have the hues of black and white, cinematographically speaking, looked so beautifully lush as in "Passing," the hugely impressive directorial debut of actor Rebecca Hall. 

But at its core, this film is about shades of gray.

Which is to say, motivations, desires and ambitions...

Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021

These. People. Existed.

Those three words — and that very emphatic punctuation — appear onscreen at the beginning of "The Harder They Fall," setting a definitive tone for this stylish and bold new Western by Jeymes Samuel. 

Yes, Samuel is saying, his storyline is fictional, though...

Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2021

Filmmaker Haile Gerima is having a long overdue moment and he's a little conflicted about it.

The 75-year-old director of "Bush Mama" and "Ashes and Embers" has proudly operated outside of mainstream Hollywood for almost 50 years. Now retired and living in Washington D.C., where he taught...

Thursday, Sep. 2, 2021

Jane Campion has not made a feature since 2009, but after a few years working in television she found herself drawn back to the romance of the two-hour story. 

Campion's grand return to the form is the period piece "The Power of the Dog," a sweeping but intimate family drama set in the...

Thursday, Sep. 2, 2021

"What is life worth?" asks Washington lawyer Kenneth J. Feinberg (Michael Keaton) in the opening scenes of the based-on-a-true-story drama "Worth," while writing the question on a blackboard for a room full of law school students. 

To Feinberg, it's not a trick question or a moral one. It...

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