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Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (New York Film Festival 2017) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th October 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A documentary murder mystery about the filmmaker’s family, set in lower Alabama. It’s an odd title as who fired the gun that killed Bill Spann, a 46 year old African American man in Dothan, Alabama that night in 1946, is not in doubt. It was director Travis Wilkerson’s great grandfather, SE Branch, in his convenience… Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: abuse, alabama, Bill Spann, black erasure, civil rights, family history, murder, racism, S E Branch

Last Flag Flying (New York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th October 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc Shepherd’s son has died, shot in the head in Baghdad. He can be buried… Last Flag Flying (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: bereavement, iraq, last flag flying review, new york film festival, nyff, richard linklater films, road trip, vietnam war

Meyerowitz Stories (New & Selected) (New York Film Festival 2017) 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th October 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“Maybe he’s undiscovered for a reason,” says Matt (Ben Stiller) about his sculptor father Harold. But for his half-brother Danny taking away the myth of their dad’s undiscovered greatness will destroy their excuses for Harold’s terrible parenting and four marriages: “if he isn’t a great artist that means he was just a prick.” This is a… Meyerowitz Stories (New & Selected) (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: ageing, art, families, new york, nyff, Sibling rivalry

Thelma (New York Film Festival 2017) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

3rd October 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who’s in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results. Out hunting with his little blonde daughter in the forest, there’s a deer in his sights, and his gun is at the ready. But instead… Thelma (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: joachim trier film, norwegian films, psychological horror, religion, seizures, supernatural powers, thelma review, university

Faces Places (New York Film Festival 2017) 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

2nd October 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. Charming, eye-opening, and consistently hilarious, this photographic road trip through a series of French villages by two new friends, the 88 year old director Agnès Varda and 33 year old JR, a hipster artist known for his enormous photographs pasted… Faces Places (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 2, Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: agnes varda film, faces places review, france, french countryside, jean-luc godard, jr, photography, visages villages, visages villages review

Zama (New York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

30th September 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires. It’s fair to say that Zama is one of those movies I’m enjoying more in retrospect that I did while actually watching it. As… Zama (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: argentinian cinema, colonialism, Lucretia Martel film, zama, zama review

Madame Hyde (New York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

30th September 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Mrs. Géquil is a teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained? Madame Géquil (Isabelle Huppert) is powerless in the classroom. A particularly ineffective physics… Madame Hyde (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: dr jekyll and mr hyde, french schools, isabelle huppert films, madame hyde, madame hyde review, serge bozon film, transformations

Super Dark Times (new York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

29th September 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence. What do you do, after an afternoon with friends goes so badly wrong that someone gets… Super Dark Times (new York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: 1990s films, coming of age, death, teenagers

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