GO OUT AND SEE ‘GET OUT’
Now that we’ve wrung the best of 2016 dry, it’s time to move on—and Get Out is just what the doctor ordered: a smart, bracing, original piece of work that marks Jordan Peele’s feature directing debut. (He also wrote…
I DON’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE
We’ve all experienced the slings and arrows of modern life: rude or thoughtless actions by strangers we encounter that make us angry. The character played by Melanie Lynskey in I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore is…
MOVIE ADS FOR ‘CITIZEN KANE’, HOLLYWOOD CANDIDS AND MORE
I am a sucker for old movie ads, so the new book The Art of Selling Movies (GoodKnight Press) is manna from heaven as far as I’m concerned. What makes it more than a mere compendium of clippings is the…
‘MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI’ IS A MUST-SEE
I can’t remember the last time I fell in love with a movie the way I did with My Life as a Zucchini. I’d heard it was charming and different from most American animated features, which is true, but…
A FAMILIAR NAME RETURNS TO THE SCENE
Laurel and Hardy are back on DVD, along with Edgar Kennedy, Snub Pollard, and other silent-comedy favorites, and we have Kit Parker to thank for it. If you rented 16mm films in the 1970s and 80s for your school,…
KEDI: A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Kedi is all about cats, but it bears no relation to those stunt videos that go viral online or an episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos. This disarming documentary explores the lives of seven felines who inhabit the streets…
JOSEF VON STERNBERG’S SALVATION
It’s a cultural crime that several of Josef von Sternberg’s films no longer exist. We shouldn’t be cheated out of seeing anything created by the artist responsible for The Blue Angel, Morocco, and The Last Command. Fortunately, one rarity…
