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. […]
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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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Movie review by Greg Carlson As tantalizing subject matter goes, the topic of Marilyn Agrelo’s “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” is as much a slam dunk as Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Even though the 107-minute documentary sticks mainly to the contents of Michael Davis’s excellent 2008 book, which was […]
Posted by GBC on April 29, 2021
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PVT Chat
Movie review by Greg Carlson Talented hyphenate Ben Hozie breaks through with “PVT Chat,” an audacious and exciting low-budget, NYC indie sure to generate equal measures of interest and controversy for its onscreen depictions of graphic masturbation. Hozie, the guitarist and vocalist of Bodega, serves as the movie’s director, writer, cinematographer, and editor. Sparking with […]
Posted by GBC on April 25, 2021
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Framing Britney Spears
Movie review by Greg Carlson Validated and legitimized by a kind of inflated imprimatur as an episode in “The New York Times Presents” series, filmmaker Samantha Stark’s “Framing Britney Spears” is a frustrating piece of lopsided speculation that never quite does enough to investigate and interrogate the horrifying treatment experienced by its subject as a […]
Posted by GBC on April 18, 2021
https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=4650
Kubrick by Kubrick
Movie review by Greg Carlson Joining the group of nonfiction portraits that includes “Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures,” “Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes,” “Room 237,” “S Is for Stanley,” and “Filmworker,” Gregory Monro’s “Kubrick by Kubrick” is a worthy addition to the growing collection of documentary films exploring various aspects of the life and career of […]
Posted by GBC on April 12, 2021
https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=4641
End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock
Movie review by Greg Carlson One of several powerful films included in the upcoming 2021 North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival — screening virtually from April 11 through April 25 — director Shannon Kring’s “End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock” looks at recent history through the eyes of several committed and passionate […]
Posted by GBC on April 3, 2021
https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=4636
Collecting Movies with Toby Jones
Interview by Greg Carlson Toby Jones is an Emmy-nominated writer, director and cartoonist from Fargo, North Dakota currently living in Los Angeles. He has worked as a writer and storyboard director on “Regular Show,” an executive producer on “OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes,” and is the creator of “AJ’s Infinite Summer.” Greg Carlson: What […]
Posted by GBC on March 28, 2021
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