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Ricki and the Flash

8/31/2015

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One night I caught Meryl Streep on the Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show talking about how she learned real guitar chords and sang the actual vocal parts for her new film Ricki and the Flash, which is about an aging rock singer alienated from her former family and needing to make amends. As usual, Fallon slapped his table and gushed (this schtick is getting really tired). Having made a documentary about a female rock singer, I was skeptical, but thought, how bad could this movie be? America’s greatest living actress plays a rock singer in a roadhouse band backed by Rick Springfield and some fine musicians — the film couldn’t be a complete disaster. Yes, it is.

In fact it just may be just that: all bad. Fighting the urge to leave the theater from the get-go, I waited ...... READ MORE



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Jimmy's Hall

8/31/2015

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Since Poor Cow nearly 50 years ago Ken Loach has remained committed to social realist films about characters who survive on the edges of history. Perhaps that interest in the political and the marginal explains why his films are too little seen in this country. He often works in television and his last release, Looking for Eric, was about a working class man’s obsession with the soccer star Eric Cantona. That story was amusing and informative — I knew nothing about the sports star. In 2007, The Wind That Shakes the Barley featured Cillian Murphy as a medical student who becomes swept away by the Irish fight for independence in 1919-1921, and the ensuing civil war from 1922-1923. That was a rousing tale that made history personal though it was not entirely clear about facts. The title came from the famous Irish song: 
"Twas hard the woeful words to frame
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Heaven Knows What

8/31/2015

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Brothers Ben and Joshua Safdie have been making short and rambling realistic films since they were students at Boston University. They graduated in 2007 & 2008. In their hometown of New York City they made short films that led to the creation of a sketchbook that became the basis for a meandering documentary shooting style. They focused on quirky, non-conformist characters who prowl the edges of the urban jungle. Their latest film, Heaven Knows What, is the culmination of this technique as well as their passion for the offbeat. It was written in . . . . ..   READ MORE
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Dope

8/31/2015

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I am not exactly the demographic for Rick Famuyiwa’s new inner city coming-of-age film, Dope, but I loved the challenge of dealing with its brazen humor. Like director Spike Lee’s once controversial Do The Right Thing, the movie questions easy answers to pressing racial problems. Like Melvin Van Peebles groundbreaking Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, it meets its viewers head-on by tackling clichéd notions of black representation. Seeing the raunchy behavior of Superbad lampooned might have surprised me once, but nearly a decade later its blunt language and uninhibited behavior is fair game. As director Lee Daniels . . . . . .     READ MORE
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