Click Here to Read: ‘Moonlight’ and the Oscars’ Middle Finger to Trumpism: Don’t let the shock over the Best Picture snafu drown out the importance of ‘Moonlight’s’ win, and the power of a terrific, political, fiercely anti-Trump Oscars telecast by Kevin Fallon on the Daily Beast website on February 27, 2017.
Category: Movies Monday
Ten Films We’re Looking Forward To In 2017
Movies Monday: Fences
Click Here to Read: August Wilson’s Fences—an African-American family in mid-20th century Pittsburgh By Fred Mazelis on the Guardian website on January 14, 2017.
Click Here to Read: Film Review: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in ‘Fences’ by Owen Gleiberman on the Variety website on November 22, 2017. Continue reading Movies Monday: Fences
Movie Monday: Toni Erdmann
Click Here to Read: Maren Ade’s award-winning Toni Erdmann: Slaves to modern global business By Bernd Reinhardt on the World Socialist Website on January 9, 2017.
Click Here to Read: Maren Ade: ‘Toni Erdmann’s humour comes out of a big desperation’ The German writer-director on how her dad inspired her surprise hit comedy-drama, why the Golden Globes was bizarre and why she won’t do a US remake on the Guardian website on January 21, 2017. Continue reading Movie Monday: Toni Erdmann
Movies Monday: Off The Rails
Click Here to Read and View: Off The Rails Trailer on the Off The Rails Movie website.
Click Here to Read: Review of Off The Rails by Scott Jordan Harris on the RogerEbert.com website
Click Here to Read: Film Review: ‘Off the Rails’ by Dennis Harvey on the Variety Website on November 11, 2016.
Click Here to Read: ‘Off the Rails’: Film Review by John DeFore in The Hollywood Reporter website on May 31, 2016; Continue reading Movies Monday: Off The Rails
Movies Monday: Denial
Click Here to Read: ‘In the post-truth era we must fight the deniers even harder’ Deborah Lipstadt, played by Rachel Weisz in the movie Denial, tells the story of how she went to court to defend herself against the Holocaust denier David Irving by Deborah Lipstadt in the Times of London on January 23 2017.
Click Here to Read: Rachel Weisz makes heavy weather of Holocaust courtroom drama:
Despite its pedigree – with a top-notch cast and a script by David Hare – this drama about the real-life libel case involving disgraced historian David Irving never comes to life by Nigel M Smith ont he Guardian website on September 12, 2016. Continue reading Movies Monday: Denial
Faces Of Abuse: Portrait Of A Couple A Psychoanalytic Study Of The Film: A Woman Under The Influence
Movies Monday: Shoah
Click Here to Read: Claude Lanzmann: the man who stood witness for the world: He lived a remarkable life: a French resistance fighter, a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and lover of Simone de Beauvoir. Yet he is best known for his epic film, Shoah, the definitive oral record of those who survived the Holocaust. Now, aged 87, he tells his own extraordinary story by Claude Lanzmann on the Guardian website on March 3, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Shoah (film) on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Review of Shoah by Roger Ebert on the RogerEbert.com website on December 29, 2010. Continue reading Movies Monday: Shoah
Movies Monday: Downfall
Click Here to Read: Downfall on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Downfall Movie Review by Roger Ebert on the RogerEbert.com website.
Click Here to Read: Downfall Review by Kim Newman on the Empire Review website on January 1, 2000.
Click Here to Read: Now the Germans have their say: A new movie about Hitler’s last days is the latest from a generation of German film-makers determined to face up to their country’s legacy of shame by Sue Summers on the Guardian Website on March 19, 2005. Continue reading Movies Monday: Downfall
Movie Monday: Rogue One
Click Here to Read: Rogue One: Does it really “stand alone”? By Matthew MacEgan on the World Socialist Web Site on December 21, 2016.
Click Here to Read: Review: ‘Rogue One’ Leaves ‘Star Wars’ Fans Wanting More and Less By A. O. Scott in The New York Times on December 13, 2016.
Click Here to Read: Rogue One review: this is the first Star Wars movie to acknowledge the whole franchise is about war: It’s often incoherent and messy. But it’s also beautiful and has a strong central theme by Todd Van Der Werff on the Vox.com website on Dec 18, 2016.
Click Here to Read: The 5 Biggest Problems With ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ by Erik Kain on the Forbes Magazine website on December 17, 2016. Continue reading Movie Monday: Rogue One