Shoestring production (16mm, plus periodic video transfers), with tall ambitions. A black lesbian video-store clerk and would-be filmmaker undertakes a documentary on the life of a little-known (fictitious, actually) black actress of the Thirties, and at the same time undertakes an interracial romance. The procedure of the film-within-the-film is completely …
Shoestring production (16mm, plus periodic video transfers), with tall ambitions. A black lesbian video-store clerk and would-be filmmaker undertakes a documentary on the life of a little-known (fictitious, actually) black actress of the Thirties, and at the same time undertakes an interracial romance. The procedure of the film-within-the-film is completely …
Sanctimonious sojourn in what is authoritatively called "the fourteenth worst place on Earth." (The worst? "L.A., of course.") The narrative framework is the well-worn one of the development of conscience in the objective journalist, determined in this instance to lead an exodus of orphans out of the war-torn Balkans. This …
British filmmaker Iain Softley has modernized the action of the Henry James novel by a very few years so as to place it more firmly in our own century, but it remains a remote spectacle in dull, drained color. The essential and ever-fresh situation (there was an unimported and updated …
A people-who-need-people piece, divided into four duos (a mother and widowed daughter, a teenage boy and girl, two prepubescent boys, two old biddies), played out in a frozen Scottish coastal town. The amount of outdoor activity and the shuttling back and forth between pairs help to disguise the stage origins …
An earlier film from the director of Run, Lola, Run, Tom Tykwer -- and it's easy enough to understand why we didn't get to see it before Lola ran (and ran). The introduction of the central characters (their names typed out letter by letter on the screen), interspersed with a …
Jim Jarmusch's bouquet to rocker Neil Young (also composer of the soundtrack to Jarmusch's Dead Man) and his loyal band, Crazy Horse. It is assembled, or thrown together, from recent European concert footage, candid backstage or offstage stuff dating back twenty years, formal interviews in a barren room with a …