There’s a thrill in seeing a filmmaker truly take a risk; it’s even better when they manage to pull it off. A mournful meditation on love, loss, and the afterlife, “A Ghost Story” isn’t the type of movie most directors would choose to follow their first big-budget, special effects-laden feature. But that’s what David Lowery […]
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Director David Lowery tells a new kind of ghost story
Writer and director David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story” is bound to be one of the more divisive films to be released this year. It tells the melancholy tale of life and death, as experienced by a married couple played by Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. When Affleck’s character unexpectedly passes away, he returns in the […]
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Film review: “Manchester by the Sea”
“Manchester by the Sea” is a
heartbreaking exploration of grief and loss among characters who’ve lost the
tools to process them
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Film review: “The Finest Hours”
Opening with a sepia-toned Disney logo over the sounds of some vintage 50’s tunes, there’s no mistaking the tone director Craig Gillespie’s is after with “The Finest Hours.” This is an earnest, old-fashioned adventure story. Formulaic but remarkably effective, outside of the modern special effects, the film could easily have been made in the era […]
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“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
There are some films (and filmmakers, for that matter) that wear their influences on their sleeves, unabashedly declaring to which cinematic predecessors its creators are most indebted. There’s nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but the catch is that the director should bring enough of his or her original voice to the material […]
