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Obsessed with Independent Film Since 1976
Obsessed with Independent Film Since 1976
For the second consecutive year, The Independent’s senior film critic, Kurt Brokaw, has screened the entire lineup of New Directors/New Films and is reviewing his favorites below, including Margin Call, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Night Hunter, and Incendies. In addition to teaching literature and business courses for the New School University for more than… Read more »
Potiche (François Ozon. 2010. France. 103 min.) Fit and trim in her tailored jogging suit, 69-year-old Catherine Deneuve sprints through a dappled countryside near Sainte-Gudule in northern France. It is 1977, and nature stirs around her. Birds tweet, squirrels frolic, and rabbits mate as the decorative opening titles playfully slide in and around this first… Read more »
Red Shirley, Lou Reed’s 28-minute homage to his 101-year-old cousin, Shirley Novick, had its New York premiere January 15th, as part of the 20th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival which runs through January 27th. Novick (known as Shulamit Rabinowitz before her marriage to the late editor of the Yiddish daily, The Morning Freiheit, Paul… Read more »
All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki. 2010. USA. 132 min.) Casino Jack (George Hickenlooper. 2010. USA. 108 min.) As a dramatic form, today’s crime docudramas have a rich literary heritage originating in true-crime magazines like True Detective and Master Detective, of the 1930s. These “slicks” were different from their fictional counterparts, the “pulps,” that grew Raymond… Read more »
The Independent’s senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival, which runs September 24th through October 10th. For a complete list of his selections, click here. The Robber (Benjamin Heisenberg. 2010. Austria-Germany. 96 min.) Bet you can’t think of another heist movie with a premise this simple and… Read more »
The Independent’s senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival, which runs September 24th through October 10th. For a complete list of his selections, click here. Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche. 2010. France. 159 min.) The camera swings up past the startling, life-size plaster cast of the African woman,… Read more »
The Independent’s senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival, which runs September 24th through October 10th. For a complete list of his selections, click here. The Social Network (David Fincher. 2010. USA. 120 m.) Why do you suppose Mark Zuckerberg, America’s only billionaire inventor with 500,000 friends,… Read more »
The Independent’s senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival, which runs September 24th through October 10th. For a complete list of his selections, click here. Carlos (Olivier Assayas. 2010. France/Germany. 319 min.) Scarface or Che? You have only six hours to decide. How much of yourself are… Read more »
The Independent’s senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival, which runs September 24th through October 10th. For a complete list of his selections, click here. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami. 2010. France/Germany.106 min.) Sometimes a copy of a marriage can be better than the original. Working in her… Read more »
The Independent’s senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival, which runs September 24th through October 10th. For a complete list of his selections, click here. Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois. 2010. France. 120 min.) On rare occasions the essence of a movie is transmitted by a… Read more »