In 1978, Michael Crichton was well underway in his career as a great suspense/thriller novelist and he had already directed his first feature film, “Westworld.” For his second film, Crichton combined his current job with the vocation he trained for. Set in the world of hospitals and medical advances, “Coma,” based on Robin Cook’s book …
Dark comedy is something incredibly difficult to pull off. I always think that it’s many the movie that, only after looking at it and deciding that it’s just completely offensive, the filmmakers decide to tell everyone that they planned it that way all along and that it’s a dark comedy. “World’s Greatest Dad,” written and …
“The best way to respond to bad advertising is to make good advertising.” That’s how director Doug Pray introduced his most recent movie, “Art & Copy” at the IFFB. The movie is a study of the history of advertising over the last 50 years, starting in the 1960s and moving into today.
‘Birdwatchers’ tells the story of a group of natives called the Guarani-Kaiowà from Brazil who decide they no longer want to live on the reservation, and want to take back the land that is rightfully theirs.
As long as there have been movies, there have been critics. Those well versed in the language and art of cinema, explaining to even the most novice reader or viewer why they’ll like one movie over the other. Gerald Perry’s film, “For the Love of Movies,” follows American criticism from the birth of sound, to …
‘The Escapist,’ is a film directed and co-written by Rupert Wyatt, and starring Brian Cox in a role specifically written for him. The film is about Frank Perry, a man serving a life sentence. Frank receives his first letter in 14 years thats inspired him to hatch a plan to escape from the prison. Frank …
‘The Answer Man,’ written and directed by John Hindman is a romantic comedy starring Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, and Lou Taylor Pucci. The film tells the story of an author named Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels), author of “God & Me,” a book of answers Arlen allegedly received from the Man himself.
‘Invisible Girlfriend’ is a fascinating documentary about bi-polar paranoid schizophrenic Charles, and his journey via biciycle from Monroe, LA to New Orleans to meet up with his girlfriend. Sound’s pretty straight forward right? It gets complicated once you realize Charlie’s girlfriend is invisible, and she happens to be Joan of Arc.
The narrator states right at the beginning of ‘500 Days of Summer’ that this film is not a love story. You think, “Yeah right. It has a boy, a girl, and its about their relationship, how is that not a love story.” Well, I’ll further afirm the fact, that ‘500 Days of Summer’ is not …
‘Trimpin: the sound of invention’ is a feature length documentary from Peter Esmonde about musician/composer/inventor Trimpin. The timeline follows Trimpin as he is working on a performance with the Kronos Quartet, in which they will use many of Trimpin’s curious instruments.