Movie review by Greg Carlson Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s noteworthy feature debut as writer-director examines, with a degree of precision and deliberateness that would impress Alfred Hitchcock, the actions of a young woman who consumes inedible objects as a way to attain some measure of control in her suffocating marriage to a wealthy man. The disorder, identified […]
All posts for the month April, 2020
Crip Camp
Movie review by Greg Carlson Sundance 2020 opening night selection and audience award winner “Crip Camp” — now streaming on Netflix — recounts the incredible grassroots movement that ultimately led to the passage and implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law on July 26, 1990. But before that ceremonial milestone, […]
Posted by GBC on April 18, 2020
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Collecting Movies with Mike Scholtz
Interview by Greg Carlson My friend Mike Scholtz, the director of “Riplist” and many other fantastic documentaries, collects movies when he’s not making them. He especially likes VHS and once rescued the children of Pine City, Minnesota by purchasing tapes of “Fritz the Cat” and “Flesh Gordon” that had been shelved in the local thrift […]
Posted by GBC on April 10, 2020
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Movie review by Greg Carlson Eliza Hittman’s Sundance favorite “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” which played in theaters for just three days before Focus Features pulled the film amidst the widespread and unprecedented coronavirus-related closures, will be made available on demand beginning April 3. According to Anne Thompson, the movie will cost $19.99 to rent for […]
Posted by GBC on April 2, 2020
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