MacFarlane fans will surely be adding this to their collection day one.
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New York Film Festival (Revival): ‘The Color of Pomegranates’
'The Color of Pomegranates' by Sergei Parajanov, is a masterwork by a director of genius who was blacklisted and then served 5 years in a Soviet Gulag in 1973. His films ran contrary to Soviet standards. Parajanov's innovations stand today as a hallmark of vision and experimentation. A maverick ahead of his time, Parajanov's minimalism created visual poetry that was and still is unique to the craft of cinema.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill’
Keep expectations low and you might find some entertainment.
Read More »New York Film Festival: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Seymour, An Introduction’
In 'Seymour, An Introduction' Ethan Hawke shows his chops as a first time documentary filmmaker using a surprising subject in a unique and intuitive process. The film is excellent for what and how it reveals a real and human portrait of friend and mentor of Hawke, former concert pianist, teacher, and composer, the incomparable Seymour Bernstein.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘The Look of Silence’
Joshua Openheimer's "The Look of Silence" explores the nearly forgotten Indonesian genocide.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘La Sapienza’
How does one break through the emptiness of a life and relationship that has lost meaning? How long must one have to experience the void before there is movement and growth? Sometimes change can happen in the "twinkling of an eye" when one least expects it. It is then that "sapience," wisdom opens the doors of one's heart to receive renewal and forward movement. Such is the experience of Alexandre and Aliénor in 'La Sapienza.'
Read More »Movie Review: ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’
They don't make them like this anymore.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Calvary’
Brendan Gleeson dominates this bleakly-humored study of a committed priest who maintains his vigilance even as his church crumbles and his life is threatened by one of his own parishioners.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Honeymoon’
There is blood and sex, enough to get this film an R-rating. But, for the most part, it is not gratuitous; it actually moves the plot along.
Read More »Interview: Genevieve Bailey – Director of ‘I Am Eleven’
Watching these interviews in Genevieve Bailey's thoughtful film, you will recall that time when you were eleven, the age between the dusk of innocence.
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