Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction 2012 dir. Sophie Huber 77 mins. Part of the MFA’s new retrospective, Harry Dean Stanton: Say Something…
documentary
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction 2012 dir. Sophie Huber 77 mins. Part of the MFA’s new retrospective, Harry Dean Stanton: Say Something…
Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles
Snippets of time-capsule quotidiana, repurposed and spectacular. Filmmaker Rick Prelinger in person! Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles 2017 dir. Rick Prelinger 83…
Motherland
But also, at least for the antinatalists in the audience, newborn wasteland, miles and miles of it, in Ramona Diaz’ tough but…
Bitter Money
Chinese rural-to-urban migrant laborers endure longueurs laced with grace notes. Bitter Money (2017) dir. Wing Bing 152 minutes Mandarin w/ English subtitles…
In Transit
With Amtrak and Albert across America, in the area premiere of modern master Maysles’ final film. In Transit(2015) dir. Albert Maysles et…
Behemoth (2015) dir. Zhao Liang
I guess it could be considered a kind of a deal with the devil. If hell is underground, but so is all…
WENT THERE: Scratching Beyond the Surface: The Films of Paul Bush @HFA
Curating a retrospective for an artist like Paul Bush is not an easy task. In this screening alone, I saw four distinct…
Instrument
Instrument 1999 dir. Jem Cohen & Fugazi 115 min. Part of the Ongoing Series: Jem Cohen, Present & Adrift
Fire at Sea
Sicilian islanders meet a tide of refugees halfway in this multiple award-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary. Sat 4/15 FIRE AT SEA (2016) dir. Gianfranco…
BUFF19 REVIEW: A Life in Waves (2017) dir. Brett Whitcomb
(Suzanne Ciani, Brett Whitcomb (director) and Bradford Thomason (writer) will all attend today’s screening at the HFA for a Q&A.) I have…
REVIEW: Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun
The other day, I returned home from work to a darkened apartment. As I took off my coat and prepared to make…
