Diary film, divided into three "chapters." In the first, the director, writer, and star Nanni Moretti putters around on his Vespa (lengthy tracking shots from behind him), looking at buildings (lateral tracking shots), dropping in on movies, seeking out the murder site of Pasolini. In the next, he visits a …
The easy descriptors for Todd Haynes's take on Patricia Highsmith’s tale of socially unacceptable female relationships during the early ’50s are words like “sumptuous,” “ravishing,” and maybe “entrancing” (that last thanks to a command performance from Cate Blanchett as a failed wife, loving mother, and motherly lover). But the more …
Carol Burnett turns 90 in April, and this special birthday event celebrates a lifetime of great entertainment.
Against the backdrop of the 1964 Republican Convention, a San Francisco cocktail waitress became one of the city’s most popular entertainers after making her debut as America’s first topless dancer. The documentary tells the story of the fresh-faced girl next door who defied convention and the law by gyrating atop …
Theatrical presentation of Carole King's performance at Central Park, New York City, on May 26, 1973.
Carol King performs her album Tapestry in its entirety for the first time ever.
Caroline Daniels' desire to leave her small Texas town brings her into the orbit of a charismatic con man, and together they weave a path of crime and passion across the American Southeast. Starring Samara Weaving and Kyra Sedgwick, with a country music soundtrack featuring artists such as Jason Isbell, …
Ferenc Molnar's fantasy, Liliom, has been Americanized (a lot of corn, plus Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae), Hammersteined ("When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high..."), and Hollywoodized (lighter-than-air color, broader-than-barn screen), and it endures rather well ("Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain..."). …
Nazareth, 29AD: A rage-filled fighter becomes an apprentice to a mysterious carpenter, compelling him to pursue his greatest potential.
The true story of a pastor and his family who set out to build a new church in 1970s rural Michigan. Along the way, they face challenges that threaten to unravel everything when an afflicted carpenter becomes their unlikely source of hope, proving that faith in God is the true …
Writer-director José Maria Cabral lets dialogue and visuals win over plot and character in his tale of love behind bars in the Dominican Republic, but his casting, setting, and medium-shot storytelling are so good that it almost doesn't matter. So yeah, it's not entirely clear why new fish Julian (Jean …
The main ingredients -- the adolescent heroine's mystical, mind-over-matter powers, her mother's sadistic, religious zeal, and her classmates' brutal bullying -- never interlock with each other. The crazy mother especially, with her Salvation Army frock and her Pre-Raphaelite hairdo, seems to be several decades out of sync with these modern …
If you've got a taste for terror, steer far afield of this beggarly Xerox job. Topicality alights in the form of a Tim Tebow reference, Mom as a born-again cutter, and the “plug it up” humiliation captured on smartphone. The rest is chapter and verse DePalma. Chloë Grace Moretz knowingly …