Life Or Nothing Like It
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsByington’s latest employs a rigid devotion to deadpan, keeping the story’s humanity at a safe and manageable distance, locked behind walls of dispassion.
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What’s the Frequency, Terrence? Malick Returns With To the Wonder
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsMaybe it’s best after all that Malick wait years between movies.
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Portrait of Wally Recounts Sordid History of Egon Schiele’s Painting of his Muse
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsSchiele painted “Portrait of Wally” in 1912. In it, the artist’s mistress and muse, Valerie “Wally” Neuzil, is clothed nearly to her chin in a garment resembling a long-sleeve puritan gown, complete with a white Bertha collar.
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Friedkin Continues Career Dive
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsAfter the one-two punch of The French Connection and The Exorcist in the early 1970s, William Friedkin was on top of the world. The [...]
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Amped-Up Imposter Could Use More Vérité
by Josh Rosenblatt / Posted on | No CommentsFor nearly 60 years Albert Maysles has been the face of the Direct Cinema movement, whose followers believe that non-interventionist observation is the key [...]
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