Interview by Greg Carlson Rachel Carey is a New York-based writer and director. Her feature debut “Ask for Jane” is now available to view on demand from Amazon, Apple, Google Play, and other streaming services. Rachel has also written and directed several plays and a television pilot. Her novel “Debt” was published by Silver Birch […]
All posts for the month September, 2020
Collecting Movies with Rachel Carey
Posted by GBC on September 27, 2020
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Kajillionaire
Movie review by Greg Carlson Polymath artist Miranda July adds an excellent new title to her filmography with “Kajillionaire.” As hard to reduce or simplify as “Me and You and Everyone We Know” and “The Future,” July’s latest movie — which contemplates parenthood and family ties under the idiosyncratic lens of the filmmaker’s built-from-scratch microscope […]
Posted by GBC on September 20, 2020
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She Dies Tomorrow
Movie review by Greg Carlson Well-deserved praise for writer-director Amy Seimetz’s efficient and provocative “She Dies Tomorrow” almost inevitably points to the film’s eerie timeliness as a metaphor for pandemic-inspired malaise and disequilibrium. More interesting, however, is the split among observers who interpret Seimetz’s intended tone in different ways. Some claim the movie is hilarious, […]
Posted by GBC on September 12, 2020
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Movie review by Greg Carlson Charlie Kaufman, the unfairly talented and imaginative cinematic magician whose screenplays and films have explored the realms of art, artifice, and identity over the course of a dizzying career, lifts the curtain on another masterful storytelling exercise. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is based on Iain Reid’s 2016 novel, but […]
Posted by GBC on September 4, 2020
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