All posts for the month November, 2024

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Movie review by Greg Carlson Certain to be included on a sizable number of 2024 best-of lists, Johan Grimonprez’s striking “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is essential viewing for political history and jazz music aficionados. The ambitious essay-style documentary experience, clocking in at a hefty but never dull 150 minutes, connects the dots linking the […]

by on November 15, 2024  •  Permalink
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Posted by GBC on November 15, 2024

https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=5622

Anora

Movie review by Greg Carlson Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner “Anora” is one of the year’s best. Fans of the formidable filmmaker might not claim that the beautifully crafted melodrama, which can turn on a dime between outrageous comic farce and heartbreaking humanist plea, is necessarily a better movie than “The Florida Project,” but “Anora” […]

by on November 10, 2024  •  Permalink
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Posted by GBC on November 10, 2024

https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=5619

Lee

Movie review by Greg Carlson The brilliant cinematographer Ellen Kuras makes her narrative feature directorial debut with the long-gestating biopic “Lee.” Reuniting with Kate Winslet, with whom she worked on “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Kuras explores the career highlights of model turned World War II photographer Lee Miller, whose images of Buchenwald and […]

by on November 3, 2024  •  Permalink
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Posted by GBC on November 3, 2024

https://southpawfilmworks.net/?p=5613