Pictures at a (Movie) Exposition
Visuals are the story in this week’s new movie releases, including Dunkirk and Lady Macbeth
Matthew Lickona 3 p.m., July 21
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Pictures at a (Movie) Exposition
Visuals are the story in this week’s new movie releases, including Dunkirk and Lady Macbeth
Director Christopher Nolan wants to remind folks why they go to movie theaters — instead of, you know, watching a movie on a telephone. In this critic’s humble opinion, he succeeds admirably in that effort ...
Lady Macbeth’s director on morality, animals, and his star Florence Pugh
Smart about evil: matrimony, misery, murder
William Oldroyd’s elegantly executed debut feature Lady Macbeth may prove to be the sort of quiet breakout for star Florence Pugh that Martha Marcy May Marlene was for Elizabeth Olsen (as opposed to the more ...
Will the monkeys do good business?
This week’s releases include War for the Planet of the Apes and not much else
Like Scott Marks, the other film critic here at the Reader, I thought the first two films of the rebooted Planet of the Apes series were excellent. Which is why I was so saddened to ...
Film Events
Little Italy Summer Film FestivalAmici ParkSaturday, July 29, 8 p.m. |
Little Italy Summer Film FestivalAmici ParkSaturday, August 5, 8 p.m. |
Flicks on the Bricks: Harold and MaudeAthenaeum Music and Arts LibraryThursday, August 10, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. |
Film Discussion Class: The Truman ShowLiberty Hall Theater at Paradise VillageWednesday, August 16, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
Third Thursdays Silent Movie: People on SundayAdobe ChapelThursday, August 17, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
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Shocked and amused by a young paparazzi
Performances do not have to be loud to be riveting
The documentary Teenage Paparazzo starts with Adrian Grenier of Entourage being shocked and amused by a young paparazzi who is terrifying good at his job. Their awkward friendship springboards into an exploration of the young ...
Movie Archives
City of Ghosts
An important story that loses something in the telling. There is, admittedly, something shocking in saying that a documentary which includes footage of a man being executed via crucifixion lacks any kind of immediacy and/or viscerality. (To say nothing of ...
Madame Bovary
So it's come to this. Claude Chabrol, one of the original New Wavers, those enemies of "prestige" cinema and of literary cinema, is reduced to doing a tasteful, well-mounted, and sparsely narrated treatment of one of the (truly) Great Books. ...
Spartacus
Big, brassy, vulgar, and -- above all -- entertaining historical piece about a slaves' revolt in the Roman Empire (First Century B.C.). The plebes tend to be played by American actors, and the patricians by British (including the movie-stealing Peter ...
