True-crime documentary about a death in the family: one of four elderly illiterate bachelor brothers on a farm in central New York goes to bed one night, suffering from a variety of ailments, and never wakes up. Natural causes or mercy killing? The brother with whom he shared the bed …
Odd to see the colossal 20th Century-Fox logo on a blown-up 16mm shoestringer, whose image is all but obliterated by dust-storm graininess. Beneath the surface static, the film elucidates the decently complicated private lives of three Long Island Irish Catholics at various stages of romantic involvement: married, tentatively engaged, totally …
Documentary follows the three Reuther brothers and their involvement with the rise of the United Auto Workers.
Young Francis of Assisi promoting poverty and naturalness in a Zeffirelli production of unlimited expenditure and frill is a jaw-breaking paradox, although the raucous Italian supporting actors provide plenty of convincing reasons why a sensitive young man should seek a life of simplicity and tranquility. On this difficult path, the …
Chloë Sevigny blows Vincent Gallo. For real. For maybe, at most, a minute of verifiable screen time, short of completion. There is, to be sure, an actual film before the act of sex: a quasi-Seventies road movie (all the way to a sappy Gordon Lightfoot tune, untruncated, on the soundtrack, …
Terence Rattigan's musty, dusty stage piece about the mossbacked tyrant of Classical Languages, eased into an early and pensionless retirement. Albert Finney, with his barrel chest, his pudding face, and his kitchen-sink background, is not as natural a choice for the part as Michael Redgrave (in the 1951 screen treatment), …
A by-the-numbers divine comedy about a would-be TV anchorman, anchored instead to fluff pieces in the field, who curses God (Morgan Freeman) and is cursed in return with all of His powers on a temporary basis: see if you can do better. (Only two rules: "You can't tell anybody you're …
A reteaming of the star and director of Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles respectively, to peddle the same or a similar shtick in a different persona: a different funny accent, different funny wardrobe, different funny hairdo. The shtick, should you need to be reminded, is to inflict the …
Escaping postwar Europe, a visionary architect comes to America to rebuild his life, his career, and his marriage. On his own in a strange new country, he settles in Pennsylvania, where a wealthy and prominent industrialist recognises his talent. Directed by Brady Corbet, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, …
Escaping postwar Europe, a visionary architect comes to America to rebuild his life, his career, and his marriage. On his own in a strange new country, he settles in Pennsylvania, where a wealthy and prominent industrialist recognises his talent. Directed by Brady Corbet, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, …
Errol Morris documents the life and work of portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman.