Bruce says: “Make no mistakes, GAINSGOURG: JTAIME .MOI NON PLUS is no straightforward biopic. Rather than attack his subject conventionally, Joann Sfar is capricious and daring in his portraiture of Serge Gainsbourg. Sfar pages back and forth to Gainsbourgs childhood to
Jason says: “It’s not uncommon for critics to rate films they see at a festival a little higher than those they see elsewhere, in part because the discussions with the filmmakers afterward help forge a personal connection and often cast
Bruce says: “Cities have a way of defining themselves, adding up pieces the wholes of which greatly surpass the sums of their parts. FLORENT: QUEEN OF THE MEAT MARKET presents a case in point. Florent was not just another restaurant;
Thom says: “This film was a real find but it shouldn’t have been. Co-director Metzler had also co-directed one of my favorite documentaries PLAGUES AND PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA (2004) with Jeff Springer & I had shamefully forgotten that
Thom says: “We can’t all be interested in everything, right? This documentary is the story of food clubs and farm co-operatives all over the United States that have been raided by local, state, and the federal government that reads more
Diane says: “I guess I heard about this doc on NPR, in the aftermath of the exotic animal incident in Ohio a few weeks ago. Tim Harrison runs an organization called Outreach for Animals. ELEPHANT is primarily the story of
Jason says: “I didn’t think much of the first REBUILD OF EVANGELION movie when I saw it a couple years ago, but there might have been mitigating circumstances – the version I saw was dubbed, and it was the first
Jason says: “Although ELEKTRA LUXX is being released in markets where WOMEN IN TROUBLE didn’t play theatrically, and you can probably follow along well enough without having seen the other one. And despite it picking up on threads from that
Diane says: “The good: Ryan Gosling, of course. I was with a dozen or so women friends recently, and Ryan Gosling was the one actor they could all agree on as someone they’d like to sleep with. Albert Brooks. What
Jason says: “You’d be forgiven for thinking that a movie taking place amid the inner circle of Saddam Hussein’s family over the past twenty-five years, and featuring the potential plot twists and mind-benders of look-alikes, would be something fairly exciting.
