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Total Recall

Total Recall

BY DAVID NOH | On the ninth floor of a high rise in one of the cushiest areas of Los Angeles, there resides an honest to God show business legend. At 99, Patricia Morison is amazingly alive and vibrant, with pristine recall of her storied past. And what a past: understudying Helen Hayes in “Victoria Regina” [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Storied Director Tells Us More

Storied Director Tells Us More

BY GARY M. KRAMER | Out French writer and director François Ozon’s diverting new film “In the House” alternates between two stories. One has Germain (Fabrice Luchini), a teacher, mentoring Claude (Ernst Umhauer), a student in his literature class. The other features Claude’s writing, which depicts his experiences in the home of his classmate Rapha (Bastien [...]

April 10, 2013No CommentRead More

Maverick Filmmaker Victim of His Own Influence

Maverick Filmmaker Victim of His Own Influence

BY STEVE ERICKSON | ”To the Wonder” is the kind of muddle only a great filmmaker can make. If cinema consisted of images alone, this film would be masterful. Unfortunately, Terrence Malick also supplies two of his characters with clunky voice-overs. As a priest (Javier Bardem) ponders his doubts about his faith and growing disconnect from [...]

April 10, 2013No CommentRead More

Sophomore Surrealism

Sophomore Surrealism

BY STEVE ERICKSON | ”Upstream Color” defies so many of the rules of conventional filmmaking that it’s a challenge to write about. It falls halfway between standard narrative work and the completely non-narrative avant-garde. Shane Carruth’s work is so daring that it’s not easy to finance either. It took him nine years to make his follow-up [...]

April 3, 2013No CommentRead More

We All Love to Watch

We All Love to Watch

BY GARY M. KRAMER | ”Simon Killer” is a fascinating, slow-burn character study. Simon (Brady Corbet), an American student who studies the connections between the eye and the brain, heads to Paris after breaking up with his girlfriend. He is lonely, horny, and lost, and director Antonio Campos follows him closely — often tracking him from [...]

April 3, 2013No CommentRead More

Redemption for a Recovering Politician

Redemption for a Recovering Politician

BY ANDY HUMM | While some disgraced politicians such as heterosexual adulterer Mark Sanford in South Carolina can’t stay out of the political game, “gay American” former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, who resigned in 2004 when an affair with a male aide came to light, seems done with all that. He is not pursuing an [...]

March 26, 2013No CommentRead More

Arab Gangs of London

Arab Gangs of London

BY GARY M. KRAMER | “My Brother the Devil” is a stunning film about two Egyptian siblings in London. Devilishly handsome Rashid (James Floyd), who is involved in a drug-dealing gang, tries to keep his devil-may-care younger brother Mo (Fady Elsayed) out of harm’s way. Rashid decides he wants out of the drug gang culture and [...]

March 13, 20131 CommentRead More

When Brutality is an Entitlement

When Brutality is an Entitlement

BY GARY M. KRAMER | The prison drama “K-11” gets its name from the LGBT unit of the Los Angeles county jail — “a sanctuary for broken toys” cracks one character. This is where Raymond Saxx, Jr. (Goran Visnjic), a straight man, finds himself incarcerated after being accused of homicide. Raymond is too drugged up to recall [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Celebrity Ubiquitous and Unexamined

Celebrity Ubiquitous and Unexamined

BY STEVE ERICKSON | Italian director Matteo Garrone’s “Reality” has a few lessons to impart about reality TV and its impact on Italian culture. Never mind that these were served up with more force a few years ago in the documentary “Videocracy.” Celebrity worship has taken over the social role religion used to play in Western [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Where Modern Pathology Meets Guileless Exorcism

Where Modern Pathology Meets Guileless Exorcism

BY STEVE ERICKSON | Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s “Beyond the Hills” may be the first arthouse nunsploitation film ever made. It combines elements of art cinema (long takes from a stationary camera) with B-movie sensationalism and melodrama. It offers up lesbian nuns, bare breasts, and an exorcism, although it shies away from onscreen sex and violence. [...]

March 6, 2013No CommentRead More

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