Tag: cinema
Separation anxiety
What are you boys fighting for?
That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote...
Watching out loud
It happens every year: “We find something absolutely amazing, totally amazing, in the films. It’s not there, but we find it.”
So said the late...
Should’ve been a cowboy
As soon as John Carroll Lynch started acting as a teenager, it’s been serious business. Looking back on his performances at the Regis Jesuit...
The misanthrope
Midway through his life, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) looks around and sees nothing he likes. Originally from Istanbul, he obliges his mandatory teaching service in...
Spice world
You know he’s the one because he’s a movie star with piercing eyes, floppy hair, goth vulnerability and untapped strength all in one. He’s...
Room for improvement
Of all the film fests hit hard these past four years, none took it on the chin quite like the Sundance Film Festival.
First, there...
Straight, no chaser
Some people bite the hand that feeds them. American Fiction’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison wants to chew it whole and spit it back out.
Before we...
Always on my mind
Some people are never more alone than they are in the company of others. Adam is such a person.
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter...
