Prepared for another stuffy Terence Davis film, always associating him with adaptations like House of Mirth. However, A Quiet Passion feels very alive for a film biography on the life and madness of poet Emily Dickinson. In fact, Davis’ original screenplay is award worthy, cunning, and hysterical. Even more surprising was the rich layers in […]
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín is having quite a year. His first English language film Jackie is garnering lots of awards attention, while Neruda is Chilies’ official entry to the foreign language category at the Academy Awards. Both redefine what a biopic is, but the two couldn’t be more different presentations. If Jackie is Larraín’s version
Jim Jarmusch will likely never be a mainstream director. His peculiar films aim for something the majority of ticket buyers are not interested in exploring on the big screen. His latest Paterson, captures a degree of narrative normalcy I have never seen articulated so well in American cinema. Adam Driver (Star Wars, Inside Llewyn Davis)