Strad Style documentary review: a heart full of violins (Slamdance 2017)
Wonderful; so funny and strange and human. An amazing portrait of a fascinating character, beautifully told with enormous suspense and tenderness.
Catfish
Paranormal Activity 3 (review)
When the only mildly creepy thing a horror film trailer has to offer doesn’t appear in the actual film, that’s bad.
Osama bin Laden on Twitter; no black people at the royal wedding, duh; DVD sales are plummeting; more: leftover links
Plus: Where are the women of summer? Is ‘Doctor Who’ violating a new BBC ban on product placement? Is ‘Glee’ turning kids gay?
Online Film Critics Society 2010 Award nominees
The OFCS is one of the critics’ groups I belong to; my input helped determine these nominees, and I will vote in the final balloting to narrow it down to the winners. I still have to watch a few of these nominees…
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale movie review
You simply need to see this to believe that anyone would conceive of such an outlandishly demented Christmas fantasy. In playing with the creepy roots of the story of Santa, Rare Exports finds the grim awfulness in the supposedly pleasant fantasy…
cinematic roots of: ‘Catfish’
In the documentary Catfish, a New York photographer falls in love with a woman he meets on the Internet, only to have his expectations about her dashed once he meets her in person in ways he never could have imagined. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Catfish (review)
The ambitions that Mark Zuckerberg had for Facebook — at least what we see of them in The Social Network — seem so small and sad and deeply ungrand next to the reality of how life on Facebook plays out a mere few years later in the profoundly poignant Catfish.
question of the day: Why are we no longer able to trust that a documentary is authentic?
Catfish and I’m Still Here haven’t even opened yet, and already the filmmakers are having to defend their authenticity.
question of the day: Is ‘Catfish’s “don’t talk about the film” marketing campaign brilliant or annoying?
Perhaps the best time to talk about a marketing campaign for a film is before everyone has seen it: this way, the discussion of the film itself cannot get in the way.
trailer break: ‘Catfish’
Don’t ask what the title refers to: You don’t want to know. You’ll find out at the end of the film. Which I cannot recommend highly enough…
