I have a new favorite streaming service, and it’s called Kanopy. Marrying the deep archive of Amazon Prime with the art-house sensibilities of the Criterion Channel, the streaming service offers an ever-growing trove of foreign, independent, classic and documentary titles, often fresh off the festival, theatrical and pay-per-view circuits. The best part? It’s free for … [Read more...]
Denis’ ‘High Life’ an arty space id-yssey
At first blush, High Life seems to be about a single father trying to raise an infant child in inhospitable conditions — in this case, outer space. As in the home, objects aboard his rectangular, wood-paneled spacecraft fail, and Monte (Robert Pattinson) must tend to them while monitoring his baby, always on alert in fronts both personal and existential. His daughter’s … [Read more...]
The prime of Ms. Juliette: ‘Let the Sunshine In’ offers an earthy, real heroine
Many of the most award-winning screenplays of both the classical and modern era are also among the archest and most self-conscious. After all, as much as I admire all of them, nobody talks like they do in Aaron Sorkin or Quentin Tarantino or Coen Brothers or Joseph L. Mankiewicz scripts. Their dialogue is flashy, eccentric, aspirational. Rarely is someone struck speechless in … [Read more...]