Movie review by Greg Carlson The return of Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev is deliberately timed to bring shame to the already circus-like Trump administration ahead of the looming national election on November 3. The first of three evolving onscreen title translations tags the project “Borat: Gift of Sexy Monkey to Vice […]
All posts for the month October, 2020
Collecting Movies with Rachel Harrison Gordon
Interview by Greg Carlson Rachel Harrison Gordon’s “Broken Bird” may be only ten minutes long, but it is a powerful debut and one of the best films of 2020. An autobiographical story about a biracial girl in New Jersey preparing for her bat mitzvah, the film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was included […]
Posted by GBC on October 19, 2020
https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=4485
World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
Movie review by Greg Carlson Animator Don Hertzfeldt holds at bay the crushing malaise of life during pandemic-time and reaffirms his status as one of the planet’s most accomplished filmmakers with “World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime.” The presumptive conclusion of his second major trilogy, the thirty-four minute adventure leaves […]
Posted by GBC on October 10, 2020
https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=4480
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Movie review by Greg Carlson Veteran cinematographer and documentarian Kirsten Johnson follows one directorial masterwork — 2016’s “Cameraperson” — with another. Stylistically distinct from “Cameraperson,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead” captures the filmmaker’s relationship with her father, a longtime Seattle-based psychiatrist whose declining health necessitates retirement and a move across the country to Kirsten’s place in […]
Posted by GBC on October 4, 2020
https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=4477