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Like its predecessor, the somber and stylish “Blade Runner 2049” emphasizes mood and atmosphere over
story, and it even manages to pack some legitimate emotion into its narrative.
An ambitiously vibrant, often dazzling pastiche of great
movie musicals, “La La Land” is practically impossible to dislike.
As the showing I attended of “The Place Beyond the Pines” — director Derek Cianfrance’s moody, ambitious, new crime-drama — came to an end, I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation happening amongst the college-age group sitting behind me. One was explaining to his friends that while the film wasn’t what he expecting, he thought it […]
Rodney Ascher’s documentary, “Room 237,” playing at the Dryden this week, presents some very unusual interpretations of Stanley Kubrick’s classic adaptation of “The Shining.” Through voiceover, we hear from a number of people offering their explanations for what the director was really saying with his horror masterpiece. Using “clues” found in the film, they see […]
A gripping drama and a Nam documentary explore battles on the homefron
Before going largely unnoticed during its extremely limited theatrical release last August, Songs From the Second Floor was a Jury Prize-winner at Cannes in 2000 and an invitee to Roger Ebert’s 2001 Overlooked Film Festival. Floor took Swedish writer/director Roy Andersson four years to complete. (And you thought you waited a long time for Stanley […]
