How are we expected to achieve a healthy equilibrium of moderation in a patriarchal system of repression and shame? The first film I reviewed for RogerEbert. All the battered wife must do is clean out her closet, close the door and pray away the devil, thus magically transforming her adulterous spouse into a loving partner. In her review of " Funny Girl ," Pauline Kael wrote that "one of the great pleasures of moviegoing" is "watching incandescent people up there, more intense and dazzling than people we ordinarily encounter in life, and far more charming than the extraordinary people we encounter, because the ones on the screen are objects of pure contemplation.
Cary Grant entering a room, wearing a grey flannel suit. Marilyn Monroe walking across a room. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers floating around a sound stage.
Louise Brooks glancing into the camera, eyes glimmering with mischief. Reveling in beauty is part of the pleasure of film. It's creepy, moving, and ultimately inspirational, and its more disturbing images stick in the mind.
It's the kind of movie that could become a sleeper hit if it had marketing muscle behind it, but alas, it doesn't; it's an independent film that's opening this week on a handful of screens in North America after playing Australia and New Zealand months earlier. It's worth seeking out no matter how much trouble you have to go to, because it's special: assured but modest, full of surprises. It doesn't go the way you expect it to, and yet in retrospect each move seems inevitable, like the incremental fulfillment of a prophecy.
His characters watch from the outside as tides wash over their existences, precious things are stolen, glories forgotten, potentials smothered. A celebration of New York choreographer Merce Cunningham, the film dreams beyond restrictions many visual storytellers seemingly adhere to.
Befitting one of the most complex television shows of all time, it's a rich minutes of filmmaking that rewards fans without pandering to them. It is the product of someone who has been living with these characters since the show went off the air in As much as fans have desperately wanted another season or movie before now, there's something so perfect and beautiful about how this movie came out that almost makes one feel like it couldn't have happened any other way.
But as hope gave way to chaos, destruction and crimes against humanity committed by the regime and its allies, options started to thin out; revolution seemed like a distant fantasy. And yet, instead of leaving like many, al-Kateab decided to stay behind and fight for the better future she believed in. Claire Denis' "High Life," about a group of prisoners being used as guinea pigs in a deep space mission, is tailor-made for viewers who like science fiction in a cryptic s art-house mode, and don't care if the movie is of-the-period " The Man Who Fell to Earth ," " Alien ," " Silent Running " or consciously aping it " Under the Skin ," " Ex Machina ," " Annihilation " as long as it delivers the goods by challenging the audience.
There are no laser shootouts, lightsabers, spaceship battles, or talks of imperial succession here—just long, often eerily quiet scenes of adults being adults, in a futuristic environment that turns every situation into a metaphor and every metaphor into a situation.
Instead, she presented the audience, both in person and streaming at home, with an impossibly ambitious set consisting of big hits and deep cuts that were woven together into an intricately choreographed work of performance art that was unapologetically feminist, and unabashedly steeped in all aspects of African-American culture, especially in its use of the visual iconography of historically black colleges and universities. The show also served as a career summation from one of the biggest names in the contemporary pop cultural firmament.
Our hero, soulful assassin John Wick Keanu Reeves , is at the New York Public Library to find a very specific book when he's interrupted by one of the approximately 11 million people who will attempt to kill him over the course of the next two hours of screen time. Eventually John kills him by utilizing the book he's holding as a weapon.
That part is great, but the moment of true inspiration comes next when he goes back and replaces the book on the shelf where he found it.
In a genre where impersonality is the name of the game more than ever, it's a delight. He is soon joined by an older gentleman who places some sort of protective barrier on the seat before sitting down.
The older man is stark naked. Our hero is completely unfazed by this. The two men briefly commiserate on how the city is changing, invaded by outsiders who simply do not get what it means to those born and bred here; these new folks are recasting a beautiful thing in their own ugly image. How right she was about that calling and how immensely satisfying it is to see her courage take an even more confident shape in a major Hollywood production with scale and scope!
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Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman. R min Drama, Romance. G min Adventure, Sci-Fi. After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H. PG min Drama. Based on D. Lawrence 's novella about two young women - sickly, chattering Jill Banford and quiet, strong Ellen March - who are trying, hopelessly, to run a chicken farm in Canada.
See full summary ». Not Rated min Drama, War. In the s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor. Scott , Richard Chamberlain , Arthur Hill. A man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town. Votes: 10, Approved min Drama, Horror.
A young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. A Jewish doctor in Nazi occupied Czech Republic then Bohemia and Moravia risks his life and attempts to regain his identity by assisting a wounded political fugitive.
Votes: Not Rated min Adventure, Comedy, Drama. A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance. Votes: 13, G min Family, Fantasy, Musical. An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.
PG min Drama, Romance. G min Biography, Comedy, Drama. The life of Fanny Brice , famed comedienne and entertainer of the early s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein. R 92 min Drama, History. PG min Biography, Drama, History. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.
PG 88 min Comedy, Music. Documentary about the famous Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade and had some problems after the liberation because of that. A middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
R min Drama. A middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other. G min Drama, Family, Musical. After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in s London.
An all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island.
In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives. Chronicles 7-weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and their therapist's experimental method of treatment at the Toronto-area Warrendale facility.
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