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Movie Review: ‘Gone Girl’
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike play Nick and Amy Dunne Gone Girl, a tense drama-mystery film directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club), and adapted from the book of the same name by author Gillian Flynn. Flynn also wrote the screenplay. Strong narrative elements, deliberate pacing, and emotional situations …
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Automata’
An Earth scared by massive solar flares is the setting for a film noir sci-fi adventure which evokes both Isaac Asimov’s "I, Robot" and Philip K. Dick's "Blade Runner", but goes much deeper.
Read More »New York Film Festival World Premiere: ‘Gone Girl,’ Starring Ben Affleck
'Gone Girl' is about Amy's disappearance: physical, spiritual and psychic. The question is did Nick ever really know her enough to inspire her to come back to him to clear his name?
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Maps to the Stars’
Agatha is the catalyst who sets the heavens in motion back to her beginnings in this sometimes sardonic always intriguing and deep film by David Cronenberg.
Read More »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 »Movie Review: ‘Gone Girl’
Not just one of the year’s best thrillers, but one 2014's best films period.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Her
A truly great love story because of how real the situations and character reactions are.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Heaven Knows What’
"Heaven Knows What" is not an easy film, but it's important, making us uncomfortable in its unrelenting "in your face" examination addiction's darkness.
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.
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