Fuse Film Review: "What Maisie Knew" " Henry James' Dark Screwball Comedy
The astute filmmakers, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, seem not at all intimidated by Henry James's formidable prose.
The astute filmmakers, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, seem not at all intimidated by Henry James's formidable prose.
I confess: I also was among those who witnessed Peter Rowan play a zillion years ago, circa 1970, when he sang like an angel with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.
The only way to sort of enjoy "Family Tree" is with modest expectations; and indeed, this is the most modest of series, as Christopher Guest cuts his molars on TV with a program which rarel…
Assayas's splendid autobiographical feature is about a young man who refuses to turn his back on the radicalism of the '60s
What about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
A fantastic film? Not really. "In the House" is sometimes ingenious, but all the main characters are cold, arrogant, and off-putting.
To The Wonder -- the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent.
A movie critic can't help but tie the Boston Marathon tragedies to the cinema, and so John Frankenheimer's "Black Sunday" (1977) obviously flashes to mind.
"Blancanieves" is not quite as charming as "The Artist," but it's less of a parlor trick, more sincerely a work of true silent cinema, 85 years after the dawn of sound.
This documentary plays like a didactic high school civics lesson. I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness.