Chris says: “Nostalgia is tricky to pull off–you can all too easily drown in reactionary sentiment or self-importance while going on about the way things used to be. Fortunately, Richard Linklater, who proved he could conjure nostalgia with affection but
Diane says: “I ended up liking LUNANA, a film from Bhutan, well enough despite my misgivings that it was too sweet. (If you follow those other awards, you may recognize the name from the noms for best international film.) “A
Diane says: “German doc in the Wiseman style: no explanatory info or voiceovers, and over three-and-a-half hours long. Closely follows 20 or so kids (middle schoolish) and their teacher, who will be retiring at the end of the school year,
Diane says: “A sweet and angsty Norwegian film about an unsettled woman who finds out she’s pregnant and has to make decisions fast. “What I liked: The tone—funny, yet also captured the fear and confusion of the predicament Major and minor