The Counselor is really, really, really good trash. It’s trash elevated to a fine art, which has been the goal of B-movie muck-divers since the Poverty Row noirs of the ’40s. Prudes and humorless folk may linger on the trashiness and question the movie’s artistic purpose, and if that’s the case, the film provides plenty of ripe opportunities to walk out. The rest of us will … [Read more...]
The View From Home 27: New releases and notable screenings, June 14-30
Is there anything quite like the early films of Todd Haynes? Before he graduated to star-studded Hollywood casts and respectable HBO miniseries (this year’s Mildred Pierce), Haynes was a provocative enfant terrible whose early experimental films upset narrative status quos and pushed censors’ buttons. His 1987, 43-minute docudrama – for lack of a better designation – was … [Read more...]