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The Searchers - We open on a man and his 13-year-old son fleeing the death squads in El Salvador [population: 6.3 million; there are between 30,000 and 60,000 gang members, and another 500,000
The solution to Hollywood’s troubles: low-budget, high-quality movies about real people, like Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” and “Leave No Trace” - I’ve known Joan Juliet Buck for more years than many of you have been alive. I’m an admirer of her memoir, The Price of Illusion. The other day I read
The State Within - I, who never binge, binged "The State Within." There are, I know, many multi-episode intellectual thrillers with British stars who talk smart. Most have the same theme: what’s really going
The Tree of Life - In 2011 “The Tree of Life” won the Palme D’Or for Best Picture at Cannes, but even with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn in the film, it didn’t lure crowds
The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville) - Les Triplettes de Belleville (The Triplets of Belleville) is a sassy, surrealistic, 78-minute romp and a deliciously old-fashioned creation that harkens back to the heyday of animation, when music and
The Weekend Binge - It's that time of the movie year. Just before the seriously awful action movies with simple dialogue --- because: the foreign market --- and the few films so good that
Top of the Lake - Jane Campion created “Top of the Lake” and directed several episodes, and that’s where any piece about this 7-episode BBC series needs to start. In 1993, she was the first
Tous les Matins du Monde - It is 1660, and we are at the home of Sainte-Colombe, probably the greatest French musician and composer for strings of the 17th century. But no
Troubled Water - Alec Baldwin says that Trine Dyrholm is “the best actress in the world.” Michael Moore has said “Troubled Water” was the best film he saw in 2009. Never heard of it? Well,
Two Catholic Girls: Philomena Lee and Ann Medlock - Guest Butler Ann Medlock is a writer and activist who founded the Giraffe Heroes Project, a nonprofit that encourages people to stick their necks out for the common good and
V for Vendetta - 1997. London. Sixteen-year-old Evey Hammond, short of cash, walks the grim back streets in search of a man who will pay her for sex. It's her first time.
Walk the Line - Walk the Line directed by James Mangold Talk about an entrance! You hear 2,000 prisoners
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Wallander - The woman who had recommended State of Play, a mesmerizing six hours of BBC drama, had a new enthusiasm to share: “Wallander.” Readers of crime fiction surely know the name. Kurt Wallander
Weekend Butler: The Academy Awards, 2021 films to stream, films to avoid - Below, the kind of service you’d expect from a butler: Amazon Prime links to nominated movies. First, though, some indiscreet opinions that this butler would like to share when the publicists
What would you watch first: “Where the Crawdads Sing” or “Winter’s Bone?” - “Where the Crawdads Sing” opened in a bazillion theaters. I haven’t seen it, and don’t intend to. The novel has sold 12 million copies. I haven’t read it, and I
Who wants it darker? No one. Here are movies and binges to help you survive long holiday weekends. - Because I’ve seen “Arrival” and "Moonglow" and we’re saving “Manchester By the Sea” for Thanksgiving, “Elle” was the only film in town that seemed worth seeing this weekend. It’s
Winter’s Bone - Odds are that you haven't seen "Winter's Bone." It was made for $2 million, it grossed only $13 million. If the film is remembered at all, it's because it launched
Without Limits - I wrote about Prefontaine in the 1970s, when running was becoming a big thing. Years after his death, I stood on the track where he never lost and remembered his
