It takes something extremely misguided or repulsive to get me worked up with pure hatred about a film, but these filmmakers (the screenplay comes from Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite) accomplish this early when, in this near-future dominated by robots, Jennifer Lopez’s closed-off, traumat...
Perhaps the wildfire spreading through the cinema chains will strengthen the independently owned and operated art house theaters, drive-ins, and theater nonprofits that remain, but no one can predict who will survive. For the RKO Proctor’s Palace Theatre, however, this turmoil is irrelevant. ...
Motomiya, Japan Motomiya Movie Theater A disused, crumbling 110-year-old theater retains the authentic retro charms of Showa-era cinema. 10 miles from Tamura Nihommatsu, Japan Kurozuka (Black Tomb) Local legend claims that this is the final resting place of an infamous cannibal hag. 12...
and the restaurant was closing up, and the waiters were all there. But the range of love for—I mean, the breadth of the love for—cinema was very near. It’s like, we could watchConan the Barbarian
regardedas one of the best climbing disaster movies ever, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’ now-infamous ordeal is re-enacted on the 6,344m Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The footage is utterly engrossing and the haunting interviews add an emotional depth to this magnificent piece of cinema...
Cloud Atlasthe novel is engrossed with examining writing and its effects.Cloud Atlasthe film, in order to be a true adaptation, should have concerned itself withcinema and its effects. Admittedly, that would have been tricky, given the 1849 section, but it could have been done. (One idea:...
There’s been chatter that Neon and A24 are locked in an art-house death match to be the hippest player in cinema. But Quinn insists that’s not the case, saying the A24 team could not have been more gracious when “Anora” triumphed on Oscar night over its film, “The Brutalist.”...
Cinema Scope Online,Currency By Michael Sicinski As a teacher, two things I often find myself coming back to areSpeed Racerand Jean-Marie Straub. Lest that sound willfully perverse, let me explain. We all have built-in aesthetic prejudices and predilections, based on our viewing histories and...
Cinema Scope Online, Currency By Michael Sicinski As a teacher, two things I often find myself coming back to are Speed Racer and Jean-Marie Straub. Lest that sound willfully perverse, let me explain. We all have built-in aesthetic prejudices and predilections, based on our viewing histories...
Cinema Scope Online, Currency By Michael Sicinski As a teacher, two things I often find myself coming back to are Speed Racer and Jean-Marie Straub. Lest that sound willfully perverse, let me explain. We all have built-in aesthetic prejudices and predilections, based on our viewing histories...