Film Archives: 01/2017

Move over Orson Welles! Hollywood has found its new wunderkind—and his name is Damien Chazelle. Coming off his indie hit, Whiplash – a vastly overrated…

Director Jean-Marc Vallee was responsible for Dallas Buyers Club, a film that impressed me very much. Sadly his new offering, Demolition, veers into Wes Anderson…

The nominations for the 2017 89th Academy Awards have arrived. Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs was joined by Demian Bichir, Dustin Lance Black, Glenn Close,…

Veteran British film and TV director Mick Jackson’s latest film is based on the memoir History on Trial. Its author, Deborah Lipstadt, an American professor…

Richard Linklater, who gave us the most ambitious Boyhood, years in the making, now has thrown together his latest, a slapdash concoction known as Everyone…

For those expecting the creator of “I Am Not Your Negro,” the new racially incendiary documentary based on an unfinished manuscript by James Baldwin, to…

Richard Tanne, writer/director of Southside With You, a fictional chronicle of Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, won a playwriting award as a teenager, in his…

In Roberto Rossellini’s first film of a war trilogy, Rome Open City, he chronicled the effect of Nazi occupation on the denizens of Rome. Here…

Do you remember how they said the Titanic was unsinkable? That its water tight compartments would never give way, even if the ship hit an…

Lion is based on Saroo Brierly’s book ‘A Long Way Home’, which chronicles his search for his biological mother from whom he was separated under…

It’s hard to believe Isabelle Huppert is 63 years old. Here she plays Nathalie Chazeaux, a Parisian philosophy professor who suddenly faces a mid-life crisis.…

Jim Jarmusch has served up another one of his lugubrious tales set in Paterson, New Jersey, with a poet-bus driver as his protagonist, also oddly…