Today will be a bear — Park Chan Wook‘s The Handmaiden (145 minutes) at 8:30 am, Steven Spielberg‘s The BFG (I’m torn between wanting desperately to blow this off and submitting for obvious reasons) at 11:45 am, Andrea Arnold‘s American Honey (162 minutes) at 7 pm and Alexis Bloom & Fisher Stevens‘ Bright Lights, a Carrie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds doc, at 10:30 pm. I’m also going to try and catch Pete Hammond‘s American Pavillion interview with Fisher and Stevens at 2:30 pm.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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