Freaks Out
There’s a reaction shot in Mel Brooks’ The Producers when the open-mouthed audience watches the “Springtime for Hitler” number in shocked disbelief, amazed that something so crass and campy could have made it on Broadway. The...
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Il Buco
Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 4, 2021 | Festivals |
The symbiotic relationship between people of the land and their environment is the basis of all Michelangelo Frammartino’s work, most strikingly seen in his 2010 second feature Le Quattro Volte, a surprise international arthouse...
Read MoreThe Hand of God
Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 2, 2021 | Festivals, Oscar shortlist |
Paolo Sorrentino reflects on his Neapolitan youth in an autobiographical film whose first half is replete with signature baroque touches but then loses its way.
Read MoreA Tale of Love and Desire
Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 2, 2021 | Cannes |
There are so many good ideas in Leyla Bouzid’s second feature A Tale of Love and Desire, so many rarely-addressed issues deserving attention, that it’s especially frustrating how faintly the sparks fly between her two main...
Read MoreFeathers
Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 1, 2021 | Cannes, Featured |
The distinctive vision that Omar El Zohairy brought to his two prize-wining shorts is much in evidence in his meticulously crafted absurdist feature debut Feathers. It’s amusing to imagine how he pitched the project at the...
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