Posts Tagged ‘A24’
Film Review – The Florida Project
The folly of youth is both a license for freedom and a litany of restrictions. Boundaries are pushed to learn where they exist. In effect, the experiential learning of one’s place in the world. Youth, in all its precariousness, is probably as reflexive as we…
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Interview – David Lowery – A Ghost Story
David Lowery‘s A Ghost Story, his second film featuring actors Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara after 2013’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, is as much about the life within people as it is about the life within a house which makes it a home, and the slow, sometimes…
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Film Review – A Ghost Story (Second Take)
There is a scene in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story in which a newly minted young widow, played by Rooney Mara, sits on the kitchen floor of her simple ranch-style house and eats almost an entire pie, in real time, as the ghost of her newly…
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Film Review – A Ghost Story
Stories centering around the grieving process when facing loss have hit especially hard since the sudden death of my brother to cancer a year and a half back. (You’re now 2 for 2 making me cry in a theater, Affleck! Get a comedy under your…
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SIFF Interview – David Lowery – A Ghost Story
Spencer Fornaciari interviews director David Lowery from the romantic drama A Ghost Story at SIFF 2017.
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Film Review – It Comes at Night
A24 is an independent film company that has certainly made a name for itself since opening in 2012. A24 is synonymous with indie films that are widely regarded as special, brilliant, interesting, and the most important, usually well-reviewed. It Comes at Night is its latest…
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Film Review – The Lovers
I just want to go on record as saying that I love Debra Winger. I love her a lot. Not in a creepy way (or not in a way that I think is creepy), but I just dig her. I have never made it though…
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Film Review – Free Fire
There are a lot of reasons why people choose a life of crime. Some do it out of an act of desperation – as though they feel like they have no way out of where life has placed them. Others might do it as an…
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