Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious, hugely influential and long-gone London theater. But it’ll appeal to anyone whose formative moviegoing years were defined by eccentric, usually urban or college-town cinemas that programmed whatever the folks who ran the place found interesting and switched lineups every day or two. There […]
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to vanquish,” is stated by one of the main characters of the Crossing film, Lia – middle aged stern woman from the Georgian city of Batumi who has migrated to the Turkish Capital Aiport Almati. As this Crossing film is sad he has to come to this conclusion at
There’s a popular belief among film critics that the suburbs are awful. It’s high time the critics should watch this movie. The ideal nuclear families that possess McMansions are at times far from being ideal. The new domestic setting is not exactly fresh, but such settings, which are so interesting and fun to behold, are
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Suspicion toward an Angel Studios picture is quite understandable; perhaps, because after all, this Utah based movie studio had already gained prominence last year with the surprising box office success of the child trafficking thriller Sound of Freedom. The box office takings of the Sound of Hope film reached 242 million dollars thanks to a
In the documentary’s introductory segment, “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger”, Martin Scorsese explains how and when he first saw the most remarkable achievements of the eminent filmmaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, as a young kid, under what are perhaps some of the most undesirable situations possible: the family’s black-and-white
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Created in their video department The New York Times, and based largely on its reporting content, “Sorry/Not Sorry” is a how-to guide about Louis C.K. The story of a standup comic who turned into a lowbudget extreme self-revealing filmmaker. He went on to be a writer, director, producer and one of the principal actors in
Let us first settle in our minds one evident thing: Yes, it hasn’t taken us too long to get a film for the prominent queen of Austria, empress Elisabeth of Austria Sisi as she is mostly known in public. That film was Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage'(2022), featuring a cold and rather too serious for the occasion
From the moment the Mother Couch film begins and Dave (Ewan McGregor) hurries through a vacant parking lot, the picture “Mother, Couch” is a little dull. Dressed in these black suit, Dave strides into the furniture shop, which display antiques that are all painstakingly crafted. At the reception area is a vivacious woman called Bella
Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch may encompass several decades, languages, continents and cultures, civilizations etc., and bear themes of memory, ageing, loss and love. However its delicateness is as pleasing as the caress of butterfly wing. Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) aged widow who owns a restaurant in Iceland goes to the doctor and reports that he
As wind agitated the grass and the trees and inched closer to the explosive climax of “Family Portrait”, one could almost ascribe that the sound is a character itself in the film, a technique that has been used well in this particularly well directed film that is selflessly more of a surrealistic opera rather than
