Thanks to Music Box Films, Hook Publicity, and everyone who helped bring the terrific "Late Shift" -- and director Petra Volpe! -- to the Picture House last night. A great, scalpel-sharp drama -- think "The Pitt" without the gore --about a valiant nurse in a broken system. Opens March 20.
Thanks for resurrecting this piece! It it entices any film fans to dig a little deeper into her work, I'd be thrilled.
Instead of yet another faithful "The Magnificent Seven" remake how about one in which an American immigrant community hires people to protect them from ICE? Would watch.
Thanks to Greenwich Entertainment and all who helped bring "Dreams" to the The Picture House last night (and director Michel Franco in for a Zoom). A dark, stark, and sometimes shocking tale of exploitation and obsession, with an excellent Jessica Chastain and ABT star Isaac Hernandez. Opens Friday.
I'm willing to believe it, as most of today's programming -- Julius Caesar, Marie Antoinette, The Private Life of Henry VIII -- is definitely despot-oriented!
For those who absolutely can't sit through another evening of Trump urging us not to believe our lying eyes, consider switching over to TCM, which will be running "Gaslight."
I Found It At The Movies: Remembering a childhood at the picture show, and hoping a new generation's memories will be just as sweet www.njarts.net/seeing-pinoc...
Keep Hope Alive.
Why is it so hard for Hollywood to make a classic, old-fashioned love story anymore? Audiences, mostly. www.njarts.net/seen-through...
Hoping you spend a safe and happy Friday the 13th with someone you love!
Thanks to Focus Features and everyone who helped bring "Midwinter Break" to The Picture House last night (and thanks to director Polly Findlay for Zooming in for a Q-and-A). A marvelous film about doubt, faith and tiny miracles, with Ciaran Hinds and the goddess Lesley Manville. Opens Feb 20.
America is rich in regional cultures -- Appalachian, Cajun, Western, even East Coast Italian-American and Southern California surfer. Our pop culture honors all of them. So why does a musical number based on Puerto Rican style and music drive the right wing crazy? I can't imagine.
I apologize for saying an ICE agent brutally kicked that small dog. Apparently, it was a US Marshall. I should have known better. An ICE agent would have waited until the animal left the scene and then just shot it.
Officials say the ICE agent caught, on camera, kicking a miniature Schnauzer and sending it flying with a broken rib, acted "without malice." Would love to gather a group of dog owners and engage that ICE agent in a frank and spirited discussion. Without malice, of course.
Don't think I ever voted for one, but I kind of liked seeing Republican candidates on the ballot. Two-party system, and all that. Now I see (R) after a name and it's like seeing (Confederate) or (National Socialist). Instant revulsion. The GOP needs to disband, rebrand and start over. Or maybe not.
Another season of Film Club at The Picture House, and thanks to everyone at Sony Pictures Classics and Falco who helped us start off with "The President's Cake," a delicate, carefully observed neorealist drama that, while wholly original, may remind you of Jafar Panahi's classic "The White Balloon"
You're very kind, Farran. I think Hitchcock's greatest casting skill was seeing something true but mostly hidden in his star's character. Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest -- Grant's always a little slippery, isn't he? But then charm is a kind of deception.
Now grifting at a theatre near you. Consider yourself warned, dahlink.
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I don't know about that, but somehow I can imagine him calling someone "pally," right before he had his goons beat him up. Or did I just see that in "The Big Lebowski"?
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar major winner, that is what I'd truly like to be: Looking at this year's nominations, including a historic record-breaker, a few breakthroughs, and a number of familiar favorites. www.njarts.net/sinners-one-...
Not that this nation is big on honoring treaties — even when sane people are in charge — but as part of the 1916 deal to buy the Virgin Islands from Denmark, we agreed, in writing, that they would continue to have complete economic and political control of Greenland.
“What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t earn enough money to buy a hamburger and a cup of coffee?” -- MLK Jr
It's awards season, and time to celebrate the craft of great acting. But save some applause for those who have the equally important -- and rapidly disappearing -- job of being a movie star. www.njarts.net/where-have-y...
Kudos to one of the warm-and-cuddly shelter sites I follow on FB that posted today “This is not political but you can’t take care of your dog if ICE shoots you dead in the street.”
So the great defender of free speech and unfettered debate is frustrated that people around her are freely speaking about her efforts and debating her vision? Check.
Pretty sure that when Elia Kazan first considered staging a new Tennessee Williams work, his initial question to the playwright was not "But does it boogie?"
The pay is nothing, the deadlines are tough, and the readership isn't more than about 300 people -- but boy, do NYFCC members love writing about our winners. Read my appreciation of Amy Madigan -- and everyone else's essays -- on our site. www.nyfcc.com/category/ess...
Note to GOP: You almost got it right. No, you can't drop off your child at school and later discover the nurse secretly had their gender changed. But -- close! -- you CAN drop off your child at school and later get shot in the face and killed by an ICE agent.
Looking forward to the New York Film Critics Circle gala tonight, and wanted to share with this year's winners what Susan Hayward said about her 1958 prize for "I Want To Live" -- "When those bastards give you an award, it means something!" It does indeed, and congratulations all.
So if kidnapping out-of-control presidents and putting them on trial for their crimes is now a thing, I dearly wish some other country would do us the favor.
