The Beguiled (Coppola, 2017)
In between when Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled premiered at Cannes and when it opens in domestic theaters Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman managed to become all the rage.
Category: Disclosure–AS
-
-
SXSW 2017 — Pornocracy
A look at new documentary on the porn industry and an exclusive interview with its director, Ovidie.
-
Is Genesis History? (Purifoy, 2017)
Spoiler Alert: The answer is "yes."
-
Killing Reagan (Lurie, 2016)
Killing Reagan is not great art and it certainly isn't great politics. But in an election year that seemingly reveals America is more polarized than ever before, there is some cultural value in its ability to humanize a controversial figure.
-
The Ruins of Lifta (Daum & Rudavsky, 2016)
Lifta is described in this documentary's press materials as "the only Palestinian village abandoned during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been destoryed or repopulated by Jews."
-
An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell (Bernstein, 2015)
If I had the film on DVD, I would be seriously tempted to play it through once with no sound, just savoring the images, and then go back and listen to the commentary.
-
Yarn (Jónsson, Lorenzen, and Millard, 2016)
I have a confession to make: I’m not generally fond of yarn bombing. But the film Yarn, featuring four fiber artists and narrated by Barbara Kingsolver, is making me rethink that stance.
-
Keanu (Atencio, 2016)
I laughed out loud a couple of times during Keanu, the feature film starring comedians Key and Peele as a pair of normal guys trying to pass themselves off as gangstas. And good comedies that aren't totally filthy are hard to come by. So that's a mild endorsement, I guess. But...
-
Full Frame Day 1: By Sidney Lumet; Starless Nights; Kedi
Few screenings at festivals are more sublime than compilation pieces that shed new light on a director or series of films you genuinely admire; few are more disappointing than such pieces that don't accomplish that feat.
-
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Snyder, 2016)
When it comes to comic books, I've always been a D.C. guy.