The public’s demand for Yuletide raunch must be insatiable. In a debauched holiday movie season that has already given us Bad Santa 2 and Office Christmas Party, the latest product to emerge from the filth-factory assembly line is Why Him?, a culture-clash comedy set during an eventful Christmas vacation, pitting an early-model, sweater-wearing dad against the gutter-mouthed, … [Read more...]
The View From Home 79: Akerman’s swan song, Wenders’ wayward comeback, a John Ford masterpiece and more
A scene from No Home Movie (2015). (Icarus Films) No Home Movie: The tragic coda that followed the completion of Chantal Akerman’s inadvertent swan songNo Home Movie (Icarus, $19.01 DVD) is forever inextricable from the picture itself. The documentary charts the director’s conversations with her 86-year-old mother Natalia during the last months of the latter’s life; Akerman … [Read more...]