Few filmmakers in commercial cinema have been able to maintain a path as singular, eccentric and even off-putting (to some) as David Cronenberg — let alone with such prolific long-term success. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Dennis Harvey
Critics Corner: MAGIC MIKE XXL
Read two critical perspectives on Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015), by Pam Grady and Dennis Harvey. Magic Mike XXL is now playing at theaters nationwide. Continue reading
The Mess of Life: Aleksei German’s HARD TO BE A GOD
Two years ago the world lost a major veteran filmmaker in Aleksei German, but outside Russia (perhaps even there) and the rarefied world of film festivalgoers, you might be forgiven having no idea who he was. Continue reading
Night Rangers: A Look at “Dark Horse—Film Noir Westerns” at YBCA
by Dennis Harvey
Human psychology is the ball and chain we drag with us everywhere we go, even into the Great Outdoors. Americans have long had a sentimental fondness for the assumed “rugged simplicity” of life in areas farthest flung from the clutter and neurosis of urban life. Continue reading
The Starman That Got Away: YBCA’s “Cracked Actor” Spotlights David Bowie, Movie Icon
by Dennis Harvey
There are a lot of people who should have become movie stars, but few proved it more times—only to get no closer to that status—than rock icon David Bowie. Continue reading
Time After Time: The Past Meets the Present at the Mostly British Film Festival
by Dennis Harvey
In the multicultural U.S. of today, there’s no longer a great sense of kinship with the U.K., our onetime colonial master and for at least a couple centuries the country Americans felt a special love/hate (but mostly love) relationship toward. Continue reading
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