New Stuff: Matthew Shipp Trio

 

Roxanne Sanderson

 

Masculin féminin (1966)

 

 

 

A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

Quirky, witty, meandering analysis of young relationships may appear fleeting at first sight, but is fascinating to watch and reveals much more under its surface; and, alone Jean-Pierre Léaud is worth the admission fee.

Halliwell**: "An exploration of pop culture and politics, in a sequence of episodes intercut with arbitrary happenings, and as much concerned with form as content, moving cinema away from straightforward narrative to something more abstract and less interesting."

Maltin***: "Engaging, original concoction mixes politics, sex, comedy, nostalgia with standard boy-meets-girl theme." 

 

 

Josephine Skriver

 

ph: Yelena Yemchuk

New Stuff: Pulverize the Sound

Who's That Girl?

 

Photographer: Eddie Adams

 

Bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Adams_%28photographer%29

Morgane Dubled

 

ph: Craig McDean

Auschwitz: The Nazis & the 'Final Solution' (2005)

 

The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps. 

 

Thorough and comprehensive history of the Nazis' "final solution" doesn't spare its audience the view of the atrocities, but does so with caution and rather delivers more details of the succession of events that led to the crime.

 

Rebecca Leigh Longendyke

Today's Cat

Michelle Gutknecht

 

A day in the life, Apr 8

 

A day in the life, Apr 8, standing outside looking inside

Luma Grothe

 

New York

 

New York, Photo by Helen Levitt, 1945

Lily Cole

 

ph: Sandrine Dulermo & Michael Labica

First Lines: Elizabeth Wein - Code Name Verity

 

I wanted to be heroic and I pretended I was.

Liu Li Jun

 

ph: Wang Liang

Metropolitan (1990)

 

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up. 

 

A brilliant and witty take on an absurd Upper class phenomenon is intelligently handled with an excellent cast of newcomers and quite entertaining appearing like a modern variant of a Jane Austen novel. 

 

Halliwell***: "A conversation piece with wit and style to recommend it."

Maltin***: "Title might suggest teeming masses, but this thoroughly original little film looks instead at N.Y.C.'s upper class...Social comedy, brimming with irony...Sharply written by first-time director Stillman and well acted by cast of newcomers; Eigeman, as Nick, is a standout."

 

 

Hollie-May Saker

 

ph: Nicole Heiniger

Today's Cat

Fadhi Mohamed

 

ph: Campbell Addy

A day in the life, Apr 7

 

A day in the life, Apr 7, objet trouvé

Andreea Diaconu

 

New arrival: Motorpsycho

 

Sasha Kichigina

 

In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod (1974)

 

Two women with different goals in life are independently out on the town of Frankfurt am Main: one is an offbeat thief and the other an East German spy. 

 

Satirical movie in classic Alexander Kluge style analyzes Germany society in a collage of documentary sequences and often humorous set pieces, but with a clear and original view on its subject.

 

Cajsa Wessberg

 

New Stuff: Susanna

 

Victoria Pedretti

 

ph: William Lords

Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)

 

He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?

A quite unoriginal story is heavy-going, but watchable due to a good cast lead by a convincing performance by Michael Caine.

Maltin**: "Flat filming of a Françoise Dorner novel...It fizzles in particular during the final stretch of a story that's consistently obvious. Caine provides what minor blood flow the movie has." 

 

Kiko Mizuhara

New Stuff: DKV Trio

 

Who's That Girl?