Directed by Patricia Riggen
Starring Adrian Alonso and Kate del Castillo
Review by Laura Hawbaker
An alarm clock beeps. Sleepy eyed, a young mother slaps the clock off and [...]
La Misma Luna
The Band’s Visit
(Written and directed by Eran Kolirin)
Review by Laura Hawbaker
“Why do police need to play [the music of] Um Kalthoum?”
Tewfig (a.k.a. “The General”), stoic in his crisp light blue uniform, replies, [...]
Paranoid Park
(directed by Gus Van Sant)
Review by Shannon Scott Stebbins
Early autumn 2001 found me rambling down Burnside Avenue in Portland, Oregon. My breath was still turning out the local ale [...]
Ms. Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams
Review by Laura Hawbaker
“A little desperation has made me a smoking, swearing accomplice to misdeeds in a den of iniquity!” bemoans Frances McDormand’s Guinevere Pettigrew, [...]
The Chicago 10
Written and directed by Brett Morgen
Roadside Attractions
Rated R: for language and brief sexual images
Review by Laura Hawbaker
“The jury is asked to disregard the kiss thrown by defendant Hoffman.”
It sounds [...]
Be Kind Rewind
Written and directed by Michel Gondry
by Laura Hawbaker
Cars crash down from the sky in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Animatronic stuffed horses trot through clouds [...]
Noi
(Directed by Dagur Kari)
by Kevin Murphy
Considered next to the pallid images of Iceland’s winter landscapes, Noi is a remarkably colorful film.
Halfway through, the film’s namesake and hero, Noi, played by [...]
Wild Strawberries
(Directed by Ingmar Bergman)
by Kevin Murphy
Last week’s Super Bowl and rocket ship pastiche has subsided to further considerations of Bergman’s classic contemplative film. Here goes:
Celebrated artist Jasper [...]
Wild Strawberries
(Directed by Ingmar Bergman)
by Kevin Murphy
It would be better to not have a rocket ship than to have a rocket ship. If I had a rocket ship I would climb [...]
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
(Directed by Sidney Lumet)
by Kevin Murphy
If the ways of the world have turned you sour, take heart you’re not a member of the Tyrone family. Based largely on his [...]
