May 15th, 2024 by Aaron Neuwirth
Coming in August: Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova, two long-suppressed features by the fearless Ukrainian iconoclast; Not a Pretty Picture, a metacinematic experiment in recreating trauma from Martha Coolidge; Real Life, a satirical mockumentary about attempting to document the life of an ordinary American family, from Albert Brooks; and Mother, a comic portrait of a struggling novelist […]
November 12th, 2011 by Gerard Iribe
It’s a real treat, and suffice to say, and even and honor to review films in general, but there are those moments where a title flies under the radar and lands firmly on my lap that makes my whole day. Great Directors is one of these films; a documentary, in fact, that brightened up my […]
February 28th, 2011 by Sean Ferguson
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris is one of the most controversial yet celebrated movies in film history. In fact, when it was released it was with an “X” rating and was protested by many women’s groups. The press either seemed to love it or hate it. Some like Pauline Kael said that, “Tango has altered the […]
