Directed by Steven Spielberg, the surreal comedy stars Gabriel LaBelle as 16-year-old aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman, Michelle Williams as his artistic mother, Paul Dano as his successful scientific father, Seth Rogen as honorary “uncle” to the Fabelman children, and Judd Hirsch as Mitzi’s Uncle Boris.
Music-making on the show-biz fringes: the hotel lounges of the Pacific Northwest. A sibling piano duo, a sort of fraternal Ferrante and Teicher, have been making a go of it for fifteen years. One of them (Beau Bridges) tries hard to keep up appearances; the other (real brother Jeff, with …
The memory board photos that adorn the opening credits looked too real to be Photoshopped. Sure enough, this is the genuine thing, a family affair built around the Basco Brothers, Philippines' answer to the 4 Marx Brothers. Duke’s (Dante Basco doing triple duty as star, writer, and director) one-take arrival …
By means of a radical face-lift seemingly in conscious homage to Georges Franju's Eyes without a Face (surgical lasers replacing scalpels), John Travolta and Nicolas Cage trade faces and places as an anti-terrorist federal agent and a mad bomber, respectively. And then, if you follow, vice versa. The actors look …
Annette Bening loses her husband of 30 years (Ed Harris), only to then fall in love with a man who looks just like him (Ed Harris).
The collapse, all of a sudden, of a long-standing middle-class marriage comes about when both mates undergo a fling, by a wonderful coincidence, on the same long night. Storyline, locale, even character relationships, all tend to be eclipsed by the Cassavetes visual style, which is quite accurately described in the …
Jean-Luc Godard was 33 when he starred in Agnes Varda’s short comedy The Fiancés of the MacDonald Bridge. That’s the same age as the photographer JR, the sole person ever to share a director’s credit with the New Wave pioneer, and also her co-star here. By Varda’s own admission, an …
Ingmar Bergman's clinical account of a psychiatrist's nervous breakdown (the filmmaker's interest in psychiatry extends only as far as his affirmation of its inadequacy to spiritual crisis) is divided cleanly in halves. The first, the mundane half, contains some good stuff about the heroine's grandparents, particularly the fastidious set decoration …
Documentary about West Australian slab wave surfer Kerby Brown, a man whose connection with the ocean runs as deep as his love for his family. Kerby is joined by his family on his quest to ride a ferocious slab wave in the deep southern ocean that no one on the …