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Saturday, March 13, 2021
The Juniper Tree (1990)
Margit and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her.
Imaginative and intelligent re-interpretation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale convinces with beautiful b/w photography and a wonderful performance by Björk.
Friday, March 12, 2021
New York
Patrons at the Cafe La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York, November 1965. Photographed by Fred W. McDarrah.
First Lines: Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
So the middle of my story comes in the winter of 1996.
The Mule (2018)
A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
Well-made rendition of a true crime story has its suspenseful moments, but is mainly told in an easy-going manner, suitable to the protagonist's and Eastwood's age.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)
Released from prison for bringing shame to his country, Kazakh funnyman Borat risks life and limb when he returns to America with his 15-year-old daughter.
Wildly ribald, politically incorrect black comedy, like its much better predecessor, tries to expose American hypocrisy, but probably is not so successful, since today's reality has far outdone any potential satire.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018)
Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Relatively short, but remarkable look at a more peripheral perpetrator of the Holocaust which also sheds light on aspects of individual and collective guilt and justice.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world
Amazing and sometimes a bit off-kilter account of one man's almost personal relationship with an octopus gives some profound and remarkable insight into the nature of our world, great underwater photography included.
Monday, March 8, 2021
First Lines: Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
As she woke up in the pod, she remembered three things.
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Double Cross (1941)
When a cop is shot dead during a raid, and another is mistakenly shot for killing him, his fellow officer friend goes undercover on his own to bust up the criminal's operation.
Average undercover crime thriller delivers all the usual goods , but is otherwise not quite remarkable.
Maltin*1/2: "Mild account...nothing unusual."
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