I’m not the kind of guy who speaks ill of the dead, but that doesn’t mean I’m crazy about films made in their honor, either. Continue reading
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“Penny Lane Explores the Questioning Behind the Question Mark in Hail Satan?”
Not the Kiernan Shipka version of “hail Satan!”, but a kinder, gentler, more politically conscious version. Continue reading
Review: Obit, 2017, dir. Vanessa Gould
Well, how about that? Obit, a film about The New York Times‘ obituaries desk, is as entertaining and informative as it is profound. I liked it! I had a good time with it! I was not overwhelmed by morbidity while watching it, mostly because the film is as far from morbid as a film about death can … Continue reading
Review: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, 2015, dir. Alex Gibney
“Who better than Alex Gibney to profile Steve Jobs? Well, probably plenty of directors, but still: Gibney has a reputation as an incisive, no-nonsense documentarian with a keen mind for layered investigation and an impressive bullshit detector. He’s also old hat at dissolving the facade of celebrity—as in his 2013 picture, The Armstrong Lie—and at … Continue reading
Review: Page One: Inside the New York Times, 2011, dir. Andrew Rossi
Consider for a moment that The New York Times is over one hundred and fifty years old. More impressively, the third largest newspaper in the United States can still claim relevance regardless of its antiquity. With online news aggregation sites fast becoming the face of new journalism in the modern world, it’s becoming increasingly– and alarmingly– easy … Continue reading
Review: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 2011, dir. Werner Herzog
Leave it to the incomparable Werner Herzog to take the experience of filming chicken-scratch paintings on the walls of a long-sealed cave in the mountains of southern France and turn it into a rumination on the aspirations of humanity and an examination of art’s purpose throughout the history of our species. Herzog, the eccentric and … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 