Bertrand Mandico’s imaginative, erotic film “After Blue” — which imagines a planet with only women — tries to be feminist but suffers from objectification.
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2021 Anomaly film festival opens with the sweet, strange ‘Strawberry Mansion’
The eccentric film “Strawberry Mansion” opens this year’s Anomaly film festival on Nov. 4. Co-director Albert Birney says the idea was born in Rochester.
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Anomaly film festival review: ‘The Twentieth Century’
“The Twentieth Century,” an absurdist political fantasy depicting a dystopian Canada of the past, may have prescient lessons in the present.
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Monster movie team taps Rochester sculptor
A live-action short film, “The Molok,” is being planned by filmmakers and artists in New York City and Rochester, and is scheduled to be completed in early 2019. Right now, the creators are making a monster.
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Film Review: “Winter’s Tale”
Although it’s only February and the reviewers haven’t quite used up their tiresome Top 10 lists, the new movie “Winter’s Tale” might qualify as the oddest film of the year, right up there with “Old Boy.” A fantasy/romance/weepie based on a novel by Mark Helprin, the picture employs a cast of well-known and accomplished actors, […]
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Film Review: “I, Frankenstein”
Although not nearly so prolific in its progeny as another 19th-century novel, “Dracula,” Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” has generated numerous adaptations to the screen, beginning with the classic 1931 version, starring Boris Karloff as the monster. Since that time, both audiences and filmmakers have confused the creature and his creator, so that the title often incorrectly […]
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Film Review: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
The first movie based on James Thurber’s most famous short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” was adapted for the screen back in 1947, starring the multitalented Danny Kaye in the title role. Walter Mitty, a timid, passive, henpecked husband, embarrassingly incompetent at ordinary tasks, constantly falls into daydreams in which he assumes such […]
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FILM REVIEW: “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
Peter Jackson’s epic, three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” continues with “The Desolation of Smaug,” and though it still suffers from some of the same issues that plagued the first installment — specifically feeling like an hour of story crammed into three hours of film — this chapter feels more confident, with a renewed […]
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ART REVIEW: “Our Cryptozoological Expedition into ‘The Elusive'”
Though we think we’re getting a firmer handle on this world, you could argue that as human beings increasingly set themselves as separate from other species, both in mind an in manner of living, our understanding of the creatures that share this planet has grown shakier and shakier. Some people study these untamed objects of […]
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“Oz the Great and Powerful”
As the new movie “Oz the Great and Powerful” demonstrates, L. Frank Baum’s fantasies about the magical land of Oz remain a source of enchantment for filmmakers and audiences. Dramatic and cinematic adaptations of the stories date back to the early years of the 20th century and continue through the present day, with such works […]
