I’d like to think that if I was a teenager who knew that his friend was going to commit a school shooting, the first thing I would do would be to immediately inform the police. Then I would tell the…
Movie Review: Is That You?
It’s difficult to tell where the whimsy ends and the wistfulness begins in Dani Menkin’s Is That You?, an Israeli road trip movie set in the United States. After being fired from his movie projectionist job in Israel, the 60-year…
Movie Review: Floyd Norman – An Animated Life
Legendary Disney animator Floyd Norman—one of the company’s first African-American artists—is touted as three things in the advertising for Michael Fiore and Erik Sharkey’s new documentary Floyd Norman: An Animated Life. The first is “animator.” Obvious enough: after a childhood…
Movie Review: My King
I’m not particularly fond of the recent trend in Francophonic cinema of break up movies where beautiful couples spend two hours screaming at each other, making their lives living hells. They’re practically Xavier Dolan’s bread-and-butter. But I find them exhausting,…
JAPAN CUTS 2016: Classic Film Roundup—BURST CITY (1982), FACE (2000), HUSH! (2001)
We continue our coverage of the 2016 JAPAN CUTS film festival with a look at three modern-day dramas. Additional information, screening schedules, and contact information for the festival can be found HERE. You can keep up with our continuing coverage…
