Latest Breaking News On - Virtual roxie - Page 1 : comparemela.com
Film reviews: Test Pattern, Keep an Eye Out and My Darling Supermarket
berkeleyside.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from berkeleyside.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, is truly special
berkeleyside.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from berkeleyside.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dear Comrades! Photo: Courtesy Roxie Theater
Retirement isn’t for everyone least of all, it seems, for film directors. Roman Polanski wrapped 2019’s
J’Accuse when he was 86 (whether, as suggested, it’s his last feature remains to be seen); Jean-Luc Godard directed his most recent film at 88, and Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira put them both to shame by working into his 104th year.
In comparison, Andrei Konchalovsky is a sprightly youngster. His brief and only marginally successful Hollywood career now well in the rear-view mirror (remember
Tango & Cash and
Dorogie tovarishchi (
Shot in academy ratio and in black and white,
Identifying Features. Photo: Courtesy Kino Lorber
If you read my ‘Favorite Films of 2020’ column late last year, you know how much I admired my number one film,
Buoyancy. A bleak tale of 21st century slavery in Southeast Asia, the film depicted terrible events in fraught scenes that wouldn’t seem out of place in a horror film.
Though taking place half a world away, I couldn’t help but be reminded of
Buoyancy as I watched
Sin señas particulares (
Identifying Features, streaming via the Virtual Roxie and Pacific Film Archive). Despite being a neo-realistic examination of 21st century life in what we still disparagingly refer to as ‘the developing world’, the film successfully adapts horror genre tropes to an otherwise grimly believable tale.
Buoyancy. Photo: Courtesy Kino Lorber
It’s the time of year when I normally start to experience warm, nostalgic feelings for the previous 12 months. Conversely, as New Year’s Day draws near, a feeling of dread descends: surely the next year will be unimaginably awful, making the previous one look like the proverbial garden party in comparison.
Boy, I hope I’m wrong about 2021, because in 2020 the only garden party of note was the super-spreader event celebrating Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. It’s hard to imagine a worse year than the one we’re about to leave behind … but at least we had some good films to distract us from the pandemic, the President, the lightning siege and the rest.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.