Thursday, October 3, 2019
Screenwriter-director Todd Phillips knows well what he is doing in the calculated way he escalates the bloodshed in Joker.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
How is this festival kept off the map from my US colleagues?
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
This tender documentary makes an airtight case that cinema has lost a very special person.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36PMThursday, July 4, 2019
I happily read The Earth Dies Screaming through, all 433 pages of acute, often brilliant writing. And also often funny as hell.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:06PMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Echo in the Canyon is a sublimely moving documentary celebration of a nonpareil moment when, a half century ago, the Southern California scene boasted giants of music.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMTuesday, June 18, 2019
By Gerald Peary When was the last time that the promo short advertising a film festival turns out to be a mini-masterpiece? That’s what happened at the 21st Provincetown Film Festival, Jun…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42PMFriday, June 7, 2019
Joanna Hogg refuses by aesthetic principle to put a lot of inflection into her scenes, steering them away from melodrama and even heated drama. As a result, some episodes are half-baked, ske…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMSunday, May 5, 2019
In the case of a scene set in the Lodz Ghetto, the lineup of characters on the way to the concentration camps veered, for me, close to Holocaust porn.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:33PMFriday, April 5, 2019
If you’re the kind of person who coveted every word and wild-man gesture of inebriated Hunter S. Thompson, The Beach Bum could be your movie.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:19PMFriday, March 29, 2019
"The world is in very bad shape, but cinema in a way is a peaceful life." -- Agnès Varda
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:02PMSaturday, March 23, 2019
I saw a handful of fiction films which were well directed, capably acted, and offered meaningful stories.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:44AMThursday, March 21, 2019
The first three films I watched at SXSW this year were picked by me with the editors in mind. Not coincidentally, the editors also had pedigreed Massachusetts roots.
The post Film Reviews: T…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Greta is a slight, uninspired by-the-numbers genre film -- we’ve seen this paranoia-inducing tale too often.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:55AMFriday, February 15, 2019
It is safe to predict that the winner in this category will one of the entries that squares off against mortality.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Did I try to fit in at my segregated school, betraying my father and his values to be a popular white boy?
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PMMonday, February 11, 2019
Shame on you, Academy, for such feeble, uninspired, downer picks.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Not since Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up and L’Aventura has there been such a mesmerizing tale of the more you look, the less you find out.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMMonday, September 17, 2018
How will PC New Englanders react to seeing nutria gunned down by hunters, and some bashed on their heads to make sure they are dead?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54AMSaturday, September 1, 2018
Reading is treated as a commodity, namedropping literary titles as a way for middlebrow film audiences to feel proud of themselves for being in the know.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMSaturday, August 25, 2018
The Lady from Shanghai is a black comedy of manners, a “film noir” near-masterpiece.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Sylvain Chomet's sublime 2004 feature is a shimmering, knowing homage to the beginnings of sound animation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:54AMFriday, August 17, 2018
In 1957's Pal Joey, Rita Hayworth makes an indelible impression as a screen siren, as sexy as in her '40s heyday.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:04PMSunday, August 12, 2018
I made a pledge last week to compromise my movie going, and in a silly, humiliating way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36PMSaturday, August 4, 2018
Womanizing Astaire grasps that Rita is the loveliest catch of all, and a keeper, in this musical treat.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:32PMSaturday, May 26, 2018
Tony Zierra’s film is a worthy and interesting one, but I admit to becoming worn down by the endless litany of unglamorous ways that protagonist Leon Vitali worked his butt off for the gen…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:24PMFriday, May 25, 2018
Let the Sunshine In is French filmmaker Claire Denis's one-note ode to the power of love even when, in this case, love stinks like dead fish.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMFriday, April 13, 2018
Claire’s Camera is enjoyable and charming, but it’s definitely minor Hong, made on a lark at Cannes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:00PMFriday, April 6, 2018
Food porn? You know it when you see it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMFriday, March 23, 2018
Red Sparrow isn’t great in any way, but, at two hours and twenty minutes, we do get our money’s worth of old-school genre entertainment.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMThursday, February 15, 2018
The film becomes a made-for-TV trial melodrama, with actors delivering oratorical speeches and the plot spinning several times with contrived, made-to-shock revelations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Could Dorothy Malone be the only person in the world to have dated both Sinatra and Liberace?
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