A half-deaf, half-lame, and fully retired private detective, at work on a memoir entitled Naked Girls and Machine Guns, is sucked back into a world of plentiful corpses when his former partner turns up at his door, drooling blood. This type of elegy to the obsolete gumshoe is a pretty …
A fascinating spectacle: Mexican director Arturo Ripstein coming to grips with witchcraft hokum and at the same time holding on to his customary starch sobriety, his long-term interest in the dynamics of power, and his predilection for claustrophobic enclosure. The climax features as cool and deliberate a mistreatment of the …
Cristina Comencini cowrites and directs this story of a dad's five daughters, all from different mothers, who gather to celebrate their father on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Directed by Ly Hai, starring Trung DungHuy, KhanhDiep, and Bao Ngoc.
Zeffirelli tries to sell Verdi to moviegoers primarily on the basis of costumes, candelabra, chandeliers, jewelry, flowers, furniture, pillows, confetti, streamers, colored lights, mists, and other such finery. The entire effect bolsters the impression that whereas movies are Come As You Are, opera is Dress Up -- and the moviegoer …
A French economics student goes to study for a year in Barcelona, shares an apartment with six other nationalities (a "Euro Pudding"), has plenty of spare time for tourism and amour. Cedric Klapisch communicates something of the richness of the experience, no thanks to the manic gimmickry of his direction. …
Playing the iconic Hollywood Bowl venue that Ella Fitzgerald and so many of Laufey’s heroes played before her, the film gives a behind-the-scenes look at the monumental show. Filmed in Laufey’s adopted hometown of Los Angeles and directed by Sam Wrench.
Playing the iconic Hollywood Bowl venue that Ella Fitzgerald and so many of Laufey’s heroes played before her, the film gives a behind-the-scenes look at the monumental show. Filmed in Laufey’s adopted hometown of Los Angeles and directed by Sam Wrench.
Made-for-Netflix drama starring Meryl Streep and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
A psychiatric intern brings his upper-crusty East Coast fiancée (at work on her dissertation on the reproductive activities of the fruit fly) to stay in his mother's house in the Hollywood Hills. But his mother, a free-as-the-breeze record producer, hasn't yet vacated the premises as agreed, along with the British …
It begins like a modern-day vampire movie; eye-line closeups of gawking spectators intercut with low-angle views — taken from behind so as to obscure the face — of a woman clad in tasteful business attire striding purposefully amid misty cityscapes. Is it writer-director Xavier Dolan’s desire to depict a transexual …