Posts Tagged ‘Bleecker Street Media’
Film Review – The Art of Self-Defense
The opening scene of Riley Stearn‘s uber-black comedy The Art of Self-Defense masterfully establishes the film’s tone from the outset. Casey Davies (Jesse Eisenberg) sits by himself at a restaurant as a French-speaking couple in the booth across brutally mock him in their native tongue.…
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SIFF Interview – Riley Stearns – The Art of Self-Defense
Spencer interviews writer/director Riley Stearns from the dark comedy The Art of Self-Defense at SIFF 2019.
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Interview – Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had
Spencer interviews writer/director Elizabeth Chomko from the drama What They Had.
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Film Review – Leave No Trace
In the midst of the expected summer blockbusters, there are smaller films that grapple for attention and your hard-earned money. Enter Leave No Trace, written by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini (both wrote the screenplay for Winter’s Bone) and based on the novel My Abandonment…
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SIFF Interview – Sebastián Lelio – Disobedience
Spencer interviews co-writer/director Sebastián Lelio from the romantic drama Disobedience at SIFF 2018.
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Film Review – Unsane
In Steven Soderbergh’s new film, Unsane, Sawyer Valentini is a young, bright woman on an upward swing as a bank analyst in a new city. Her job is “to interpret data to produce analytical results,” and she is soon recognized for her work. Soon, however,…
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Film Review – Logan Lucky
No one in the industry seemed to believe Steven Soderbergh‘s lofty retirement announcement in 2013, especially considering that his producing and television credits continued to mount. For his first feature directorial effort since the fantastic Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra, Soderbergh jumps stealthily back to…
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Film Review – The Lost City of Z
Percy Fawcett went looking for a lost city in the unmapped jungles of the Amazon – several times – and never returned. Fawcett’s story holds inherent interest – it’s estimated around a hundred subsequent adventurers died looking for him – and it could be told…
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