Movie City News Archive for May, 2009
Wilmington on DVDs: Of Time and the City, El Dorado, Zabriskie Point, and more…
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW Of Time and the City (Three-and-a-Half Stars) U. K.; Terence Davies, 2008 (Strand Releasing) The sometimes mournfully brilliant British independent filmmaker Terence Davies returns to Liverpool, the place of his birth and growing up
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Wise Blood, Valkyrie and more…
CO-PICKS OF THE WEEK: CLASSICS The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Two Discs) (Four Stars) U. S.; John Ford, 1962 (Paramount) John Ford’s last great Western is a visually spare masterpiece about the new and old frontiers
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: Tell No One, A Grin Without a Cat, Max Fleischer’s Superman and more…
PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW Tell No One (Three Stars) France; Guillaume Canet, 2006 (Music Box Films/MPI) A provincial French pediatrician named Beck (Francois Cluzet) — still tormented by the
Read the full article »HotDocs: OnePiece: Yang Chung on optimism
For a few months I’ve been asking filmmakers for reasons to be cheerful. Why are they optimistic as artists or in their lives in the face of the dour moment we’re living in? Yang Chung (Up the Yangtze) and I grabbed a moment during a projection failure at the HotDocs premiere of Winnebago Man. [Or.]
Read the full article »Wilmington on DVDs: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Wendy and Lucy, Science is Fiction and more…
CO-PICKS OF THE WEEK: NEW The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Three and a Half Stars) U. S.; David Fincher, 2008 (Criterion) David Fincher, seemingly working at full intensity, gives us the epic adaptation of an obscure
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