I forget who directed this thing but he did a good job. See it. The kid on the right belongs to a religious sect that doesn't allow kids to watch TV. He runs into the kid on the left who is smart and screwed up and making a Rambo film. What I loved most was a book of scribblings/drawings by the kid on the right. It made me want to do a picture diary for my own pleasure. The director also uses animation in unexpected places in what is mostly a smart film about friendship. There are adults peppered through out but it is all pretty much the kids point of view. And yes we see quite a bit of their film making. SON OF RAMBOW available on NETFLIX.
Flicks
March 07, 2010
February 19, 2010
I LIVE IN FEAR- 1955
My jones for Japan.
January 30, 2010
January 12, 2010
Alice Neel (2007)
Her grandson made a film bio u should see.
December 19, 2009
OUR CITY DREAMS
See this film.
December 01, 2009
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Dorothy True, 1919 by Stieglitz.
Do not pass up renting ALFRED STIEGLITZ:THE ELOQUENT EYE-fantastic documentary on Stieglitz. (Somehow I didn't remember this little leg portrait he did of a friend of Georgia O'Keefe.) The vid has serious photo historians like Alan Trachtenberg opining so it's like a class at the UW. Plus Georgia O'Keefe is on film (1980) adding her own snark and getting annoyed with dumb questions from the interviewer and there is also fab early movie footage of New York streets, of Stieglitz and O'Keefe, also of Rodin, Steichen, Marin....it was great. Art and photography woven together. The big idea in the film is that the evolution of modernism in America is a mirror of Stieglitz own life and changes. He is presented as a much bigger taste maker than I ever imagined but also a much
more committed and honest individual--yes a tad domineering but maybe with out that obsessive belief in yourself little would be accomplished. At the end there is some criticism of his autocratic nature but it seems to me even the art police all these years later are wowed by the man.
August 30, 2009
DOMINICK DUNNE: AFTER THE PARTY
Great flick reveals a complex/honest guy.
August 12, 2009
ADAM'S APPLES- OUTRAGEOUS
Outrageous, violent, sweet black comedy about a neo-nazi, a rapist and a crazed Pakistani shooter doing time in the parish of a Danish pastor. It is too hard to explain so just watch it- it's one of the best films I've seen. The director is Anders Thomas Jensen. Ulrich Jensen, playing the neo-Nazi is in the photo with the always positive pastor by his side. Oh yeah- it's available on instant at NETFLIX.
July 07, 2009
SAD LADY OF THE LOWLANDS
A portrait of loneliness--Forty Shades of Blue.
May 30, 2009
TOWELHEAD & ALICIA ERIAN
Raw, difficult and wonderful film about a 13 year old girl. Summer Bahil plays Jasira.
