Blue Valentine, The Boy Friend, Savage Messiah, and others
This week, we begin in a nursing home in Pennsylvania: Blue Valentine (**1/2) Blue Valentine…
Reviews
Bergman’s SMILES and Other Re-Issues
This week we begin in Sweden: Smiles of a Summer Night (*****) The Criterion Collection…
The Illusionist
Written by Jacques Tati, directed by Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist traces the changing seasons over…
Biutiful
“It’s dangerous to trust a man who is hungry.” – Policeman to Uxbal Alejandro González…
Another Year
Gerri: “What is the one thing you feel would improve your life, apart from sleep.”…
The King’s Speech
In April of 1924, King George VI opened the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The…
TRON: Legacy
Twenty-eight years after Steven Lisberger’s Tron, Disney has run out of ideas and, having exhausted…
The Fighter
On July 18, 1978, Dickie Eklund, the “Pride of Lowell,” whose career spanned ten years—nineteen…