Written by Lesley Coffin (spoilers included) Much has been made of how the new film Logan incorporates and makes direct reference to the film Shane, one of the definitive films of the western genre in its golden age. The characters, narrative and visual inspirations are easy to spot; one of the reason director James Mangold’s…
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‘Jackie’ and The Post-Truth Biopic
Jackie Onassis scholar Oline Eaton digs into the new film from Pablo Larrain, “Jackie” starring Natalie Portman
HIFF’s In Conversations with Holly Hunter and Edward Norton
One of the best features of the Hampton’s film festival is the opportunity to utilize its intimate setting, despite its close proximity to New York City. Often overlapping with the New York Film Festival (as it did this year), the festival has a quality of being a retreat. It invites a more leisurely, relaxed audience…
Hero-worship Burdens Biopics ‘Snowden’ and ‘Sully’
New Biopics by Clint Eastwood and Oliver Stone, Sully and Snowden, kickstart awards season
‘Maggie’s Plan’ Offers Small Victories, but Girl Power Triumphs in ‘Love & Friendship’
Written by Selma Thompson Released only days apart, Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan and Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship each explore similar dilemmas: In each film, a woman of intelligence, in a rarified social orbit, defies convention to plot her domestic happiness. A viewer wandering from one screen to the next at the multiplex could construct…
