Michael says: “I can’t believe that it’s been nearly 30 years since John Sayles directed his eighth feature, the glorious PASSION FISH. Sayles was a top independent writer/director at the time, already having produced such work as MATEWAN, EIGHT MEN
Jeff says: “My 10-year-old Mom could have watched SHADOW IN THE CLOUD serialized on the screen at the Billings movie theater where she spent many of her Saturday afternoons. The cliffhangers, the edge-of-the-seat thrills, the non-stop action, the heroism and
Michael says: “Jin, a Korean book translator, is called to Columbus, Indiana, where his father, a famous scholar of architecture on a speaking tour, has suffered a stroke, or some other debilitating ailment. He resents that he needs to stay
Philip says: “Of my three most influential film directors, Alfred Hitchcock taught me that beauty, complexity, and suspense can have a place in a mass-marketed film. Pedro Almodóvar taught me the importance of family, absurdity in story, and the strength
Philip says: “Lynn Whitfield and Samuel L. Jackson star in this Kasi Lemmons melodrama based in Louisiana during the 1950’s. This film would be a perfect double feature paired with LAKAWANNA BLUES. Lemmons channels a bit of Tennessee Williams as she
Philip says: “Derek Jarman is a revolutionary filmmaker. I hate to think of him in the past tense. If you don’t understand the enormous vacuum that was left from the devastation of AIDS, watch Jarman’s EDWARD II, nearly 20 years
Philip says: “CLOUDBURST literally bursts on the screen with a powerhouse career-defining performance from 80 year-old Olympia Dukakis. Dukakis and Brenda Flicker (both Academy Award winning actors) play a lesbian couple who’ve been together for 31 years. Fricker’s character, Dot
Philip says: “Over the past ten years, LA BÛCHE has become a perennial holiday favorite of mine. A score by Michel Legrand containing classic Christmas songs from the 50’s and 60’s, family dysfunction, honesty, anger, and of course a lot
Philip says: “I wish I had seen Sean Baker’s (TANGERINE) film, THE FLORIDA PROJECT before the Oscars. I would have cheered it on. Baker’s gritty realism witnessed in his stunning Tangerine turns out not to be a flash in the
Philip says: “Revisited the hysterical mockumentary classic, Christopher Guest’s BEST IN SHOW this past weekend. ‘Pine nut… cashew nut… macadamia nut.’ The laughs never end. Jane Lynch had her breakout performance as dog handler Christy Cummings. I’m sure the Glee
