Expect anything from Lars von Trier — but when the film is called Nymphomaniac: Volume 1, and it’s in two parts, be prepared for a very wild ride. The Danish film director, screenwriter, and committed provocateur can be maddening, confusing, surreal, charming, and disarming. You may love him for his nerve, hate him for his politics, or find yourself somewhere in between. But it’s hard to turn away from the bedeviling accumulation of his images, from the beautiful to the grotesque. In Antichrist he fabricated a fantastical world of sado-masochistic eroticism, images that burned the screen and the eyeballs with writhing bodies and talking deer. Then, in Melancholia, the world exploded into an ecstasy . . .  Read More

The best storytelling and moviemaking combine mythic scope with closely observed detail. The books of Chris Van Allsburg, for example, are enchanting for both adults and kids because their preposterous stories are told in such lushly illustrated detail. The author/illustrator came to mind while watching director Wes Anderson’s eighth feature, The Grand Budapest Hotel, bring his audience to a rapturous and childlike state. The serial adventure story is a delirious collection of eccentric characters and tropes from a long history of espionage war movies ostensibly based on the writings of Stefan Zweig, a prolific and .... 
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The Cast  of Characters

On August 1, 1975, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in the assassination of Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963.

In 1961, 21-year-old Paul Saltzman was headed to the courthouse in Greenwood, Mississippi, as part of a campaign to help register black voters for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was punched in the face by de la Beckwith’s son, Delay De La Beckwith. He ran for his life.

Now a documentary filmmaker, Saltzman chronicles a five-year dialogue with the man who assaulted him in the mesmerizing The Last White Knight      Read  More . . . .