Frances Ha
It was while working on Greenberg (2010) that writer/director Noah Baumbach began his relationship with Greta Gerwig. Subsequently, the pair penned the screenplay for Frances Ha (2012) together, with Gerwig… Read more »
It was while working on Greenberg (2010) that writer/director Noah Baumbach began his relationship with Greta Gerwig. Subsequently, the pair penned the screenplay for Frances Ha (2012) together, with Gerwig… Read more »
This review was first published during the initial release of this film. Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse is not about a dystopian future, but rather how the X-Men manage to avert… Read more »
Superficially, Anna Biller’s The Love Witch (2016) may seem like nothing more than a pastiche; some cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Terence Fisher’s The Devil Rides Out (1968)… Read more »
When I was growing up our family doctor had something of an obsession with clowns. All over his office were little oil paintings of clowns, dolls of clowns, decorative plates… Read more »
“Nervous breakdowns/Crowd the calendar of freedom/When reality is forced upon the nonbeliever’s ego plan/Criticizers/From the hanging cliffs of plenty/Laugh to see the fall of those/Who would remain in honest lands/Clairvoyants… Read more »
Blade Runner (1982) has gotten a sequel. Anyone who has seen Ridley Scott’s film is probably wondering why or even how a sequel could have been made. Oddly, Blade Runner… Read more »
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Lady Bird (2017), is the “hip” ticket this holiday season. Like Wonder Woman (2017) in the spring, Lady Bird suits the zeitgeist; though in many respects… Read more »
When I saw Sofia Coppola’s latest film The Beguiled (2017) at the County Theater in Doylestown I was actually really surprised by it. I know it really wasn’t very much… Read more »
There are some films that offer us fantasies whose close correlation with our own emotional life allows them to take on an urgency that we, as an audience, are often… Read more »