 |
|
In
This Dispatch:
- What's
New: George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Haywire.
- What
We're Watching: Cirkus Columbia.
- Explore:
TRIBECA 2012: Critic's Notebook #2, Retro Active: Web of the
Spider.
|
|
|
“I
will never forget the first time I heard All Things Must Pass,"
said Martin Scorsese of his documentary subject George Harrison's
triple solo 1970 album. “It was like walking into a
cathedral. George was making spiritually awake music – we all
heard and felt it.” Known
commonly as the quiet Beatle, Scorsese takes an in-depth look at
Harrison's life and spiritual journey through a plethora of never
before seen footage and interviews from his closest
compatriots. Clocking in at 210 minutes, it's a long sit,
however, "That is the value of a film this long... we can observe and
regard a full and complex life, and feel as though we understand it a
touch better afterwards. This is a masterful film," writes Jason
Bailey.
|
|
|
|
Steven Soderbergh in box office
mode is, as we've said before,
nothing to sneeze at, so it comes as no surprise that his take on the
spy-action-thriller is "streamlined, beautifully shot and casually
thrilling... Haywire
is about the simple joys of action film virtuosity, and Soderbergh
delivers."
says Vadim
Rizov. The film stars MMA champ
and
American Gladiator Gina Carano as a covert ops specialist up against
big-time male movie stars Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Channing
Tatum, Antonio Banderas and Michael Douglas. Peter
Travers adds, " Haywire
comes close to achieving Soderbergh's goal of creating 'a Pam Grier
movie made by Alfred Hitchcock.'" Also available on Blu-Ray.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
From
Aaron
Hillis: "In small-town southern
Herzegovina circa 1992—on the eve of the bloody war in the
Balkans—middle-age former villager Divko (Miki Manojlovic)
rolls into town after 20 years of German exile in a shiny red Mercedes,
with tons of dough and flame-haired arm candy Azra (Jelena Stupljanin).
The communists are out of power, and Divko is ready
to take back his
family home—except that it's still occupied by his frumpy,
abandoned wife, Lucija (Mira Furlan), and ham-radio-obsessed grown son,
Martin (Boris Ler)." This straightfoward fractured family drama
becomes, as Diego
Costa adds, "a very nuanced
political critique of capital... (which) will, of course, unsettle
systems of kinship as well." |
|
|
Steve
Dollar files Critic's Notebook #2 from this year's Tribeca Film
Festival, covering the three-director omnibus with vaguely Dogme
'95 overtones The Fourth Dimension
(featuring works from Harmony
Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko, and
Jan Kwiecinski), the The Norwegian Coen Brothers Knock-off Jackpot,
and much, much more. Read
more >>
|
|
|
|
Inspired
by the Edgar Allan Poe-themed horror-mystery The Raven,
Nikc Schager
brings us this Retro Active column on Italian Director Antonio
Margheriti's Web
of the Spider,
a remake of Margheriti's own aptly-dubbed (and superior) 1964 Castle
of Blood.
With the incomparable Klaus
Kinski as Edgar Allan Poe,
Kinski opens the film flailing about a tomb with a torch in hand,
lurching and spinning about with frantic, sweaty drunkenness, and
smashing open a coffin before bellowing a hilarious "Noooooo!" Read more >> |
|
|
|
|
May
Day
Podcasts!
|
|
