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People on Sunday, by Domenique Dumont
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SPEECH & DEBATE: Teen Film Lacks Focus
For a few months in 2007 and 2008 I worked at a bookstore on Boylston Street in Boston, just a few blocks from the Boston Public Library. On one busy Saturday I noticed a customer whose faced looked familiar to me and, after several minutes of careful consideration, concluded that it was in fact Todd Field, Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning writer/director of In The Bedroom and Little Children who had also been an actor in films by Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick.
ICARUS: Top-Level Cheaters
Icarus is not the documentary that its director, Bryan Fogel, had in mind. Before starting work on his Super Size Me-style sports-doping exposé cum Russian spy thriller, Fogel had been the creator of Jewtopia, a successful off-Broadway play that he parlayed into a book and then a movie, about a Gentile who pretends to be Jewish for romantic gain.
LONG STRANGE TRIP: The Grateful Dead In The Exploding Moment
Somewhere on the way to the end of the first hour of Amir Bar-Lev’s four-hour Grateful Dead documentary, Long Strange Trip, the director sets up a mission statement of sorts for Dead Inc. In a word: fun. It’s the apotheosis of a section about the band’s participation in Ken Kesey’s legendary “Acid Tests,” where they were the house band to the counterculture’s bold quest for states of being then uncharted in Western culture.
SHIRKERS: The Catcher Among The Durians
“D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn’t know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don’t know what I think about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” – The Catcher in the Rye.
REACH: A Thoroughly Teen Movie
Reach is the first feature-film for director Leif Rokesh and writers Maria Capp, Johnny James Fiore, and Grant Harling. It concerns the acute adolescent distress of one Steven Turano (Garrett Clayton) – who begins the film by introducing himself and announcing to the viewers that “…Tonight I’m going to kill myself” – and a free-ish spirit named Clarence West (also Johnny James Fiore), who has newly arrived at Reach Performing Arts Academy and just might be enough to derail Steven’s plans.
QUINCY: The Quintessence Or Robot Portrait?
James Brown is known as the “hardest working man in show business.” But any summary of the career of Quincy Jones suggests the title should be his instead. The accomplishments of Quincy Jones are unmatched in the history of American music and popular culture. His abilities as a producer, composer, arranger, and performer are undeniable. And the sheer volume of his output is astounding.
THE DAWN WALL: Doing The Impossible
It’s January 4, 2015. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are sitting on two portaledges, tented platforms with barely a body’s length of space to stretch out on, suspended by ropes at roughly 1,200 feet above the ground. That’s just over one third of their way up the “Dawn Wall,” the most prominent portion of the eastern face of Yosemite’s iconic peak, El Capitan.
Dads, Single Moms & Transport: The Obsessions Of Cameron Crowe
Kubrick was fond of symmetry. Wes Anderson loves The Kinks. The name JJ Abrams is synonymous with lens flare. Tarantino has a foot fetish. Directors often have obsessions, whether visual, thematic, or otherwise. Aside from his decades-long devotion to a very particular kind of romantic comedy – romance plus personal crisis, comedy for good measure – Cameron Crowe has amassed a sizable list of creative fixations. Some are obvious, from first-rate music cues to precocious moppets. Others, less so.
Happiness, Delusion & Catharsis In LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
This is a simple story: An awkward and lonely boy meets a quiet girl who also happens to be inanimate and made almost entirely from silicone, meanwhile the boy’s family, friends, and acquaintances participate in sustaining his delusion that the girl is a real, live human. There’s Something About Bianca Based on premise alone, you’d be silly to expect that Lars and the Real Girl (2007) would be the sensible, nuanced, and emotionally complex movie that it is.
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