Movie review by Greg Carlson Theo Anthony’s thought-provoking Sundance Special Jury Award prizewinner “All Light, Everywhere” ponders a great many questions joining past and present, perception and reality, and beholder and beheld. Among its fascinating explorations is the link between the development of photographic processes and their application in the arenas of warfare and policing. […]
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Collecting Movies with Melissa Maerz
Interview by Greg Carlson The supremely talented Melissa Maerz’s official author biography notes that she “has worked as an editor at Spin and Rolling Stone, a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, and a supervising producer on HBO’s Vice News Tonight. She was a founding editor at New York magazine’s Vulture […]
Posted by GBC on May 21, 2021
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Saint Maud
Movie review by Greg Carlson Another movie long-delayed by the pandemic, “Saint Maud” can finally be viewed on Amazon Prime and several other online outlets (the world premiere took place a lifetime ago at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival). Writer-director Rose Glass makes a convincing feature debut with an unsettling study of a personal […]
Posted by GBC on May 17, 2021
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Movie review by Greg Carlson Hard to say whether non-cinephiles will be interested enough to watch a feature-length documentary about a movie critic, but Rob Garver’s “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael” is a worthwhile biography of a fascinating life led with purpose and conviction. Of course, the film-obsessed won’t need to be […]
Posted by GBC on May 8, 2021
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