Historical flight of fancy suggesting that if only Nixon could go to China, then perhaps only Elvis could go to Nixon: a rock ’n’ roller beloved by America who loved America right back, right down to her squaresville commander-in-chief. In 1970, the King surveyed his dominion and was dismayed: riots, …
Elvis rockumentary.
In the "Love at First Sight" Department, it’s been twelve years since the Latino Film Festival introduced me to Pablo Larrain via his second feature Tony Manero, a picture I never tire of watching and championing. This year Larrain acquaints audiences with Ema (Mariana Di Girolamo), the reggaeton sensation with …
The reason for black and white — or one of them, anyway — in Cero Guerra’s tale of dual Amazonian explorations is clear from the get-go: the lack of color allows texture and light to come to the fore in spectacular fashion. The film can be savored (and almost entirely …
Fred Koenekamp's slick inky photography is the one element in the correct key for this Thirties-style sci-fi story about a humanitarian scientist "playing God" in the laboratory of his secluded country house. On the way to an appallingly messy ending, the movie shows not the slightest interest in its own …
The story, said to be based on fact, though it blasts off from that base fairly soon and fairly far, tells of the abduction of an American boy by Amazon Indians, and of his father's re-connection with him after a search of ten years. This bears a striking resemblance to …
Jan Troell's tribute to the Swedish peasants of mid-19th Century who took all the misery they could take in their homeland and then ventured to America, taking more misery all along the way. It has, shall we say, an unwavering sense of purpose. Live Ullman and Max von Sydow.