Well-made Clarence Brown pre-Code soaper with Joan Crawford (Brown directs Joan 5 times) costumed by Adrian (he does this a total of 28 times) and photographed by Oliver T. Marsh (he did a total of 15 films with Joan). First class production crew yields a first class film.Read More »
A mere handful of minutes in the Indonesian province of Bali. Enough? Never enough. We see (and hear) a few of the characteristics that make Bali such an enviable travel destination (and an even more enviable place to live).Read More »
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The collective consciousness of human pain has led to an unknown alternate reality wasteland. Appearing are those searching for their answers and somewhere beyond-the entity Embodiment of Angst. It is believed that this mysterious thing can save whoever encounters it from whatever pain they’re undergoing. So of course everyone started battling to the death so that any which one of them may gain catharsis. With only the most hardcore and pain-ridden still standing and a Psycho in the Radio summoning reject objects to crash onto everyone they resent, the answers to pain don’t wait. The use of “Angst” is repurposed as synonymous with all pain-physical, psychological, spiritual. Jacked into the Wasteland of Angst’s heightened alternate reality, how each person experiences, handles, and expresses their pain is represented as supernatural traits both to their advantage and disadvantage.Read More »
Abel Ferrara explores human conflict and the search for peace and balance through the music and words of Patti Smith and the experiences of people at war in Ukraine.Read More »
Errol Morris’ documentary “Separated” is about an act of cruelty carried out on a massive scale: the forcible division at the US-Mexico border of immigrant parents from their children. It’s illuminating in the most chilling way. Morris’ characteristically cool, analytical approach contains the inherent emotion of the subject matter. Horror arises from the uninflected presentation of information. The movie feels less like a prosecutorial document than an autopsy of a government’s conscience, pinpointing the time of death.Read More »
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland, to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic Church.Read More »