The El Duce Tapes, 2019.Directed by Rodney Ascher, David Lawrence, and Ryan Sexton. Starring Eldon Hoke and Steve Broy.SYNOPSIS:A posthumous examination of the life and times of controversial shock rocker Eldon Hoke, better known as El Duce, the lead singer of Seattle-based “rape-rock” band The Mentors.To many – this critic included – shock rocker El […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, 2019.Directed by Midge Costin. Starring Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, and Ryan Coogler.SYNOPSIS:An exploration of the history, artistry, and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Rewind
Rewind, 2019.Directed by Sasha Joseph Neulinger. Starring Sasha Joseph Neulinger.SYNOPSIS:Digging through the vast collection of his father’s home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.Is there a more noble use of filmmaking, especially the documentary form, than to lay one’s own suffering bare in […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – A White, White Day
A White, White Day, 2019.Written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason. Starring Ingvar E Sigurðsson and Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir.SYNOPSIS:In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his wife, who recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Honey Boy
Honey Boy, 2019.Directed by Alma Har’el. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, and Noah Jupe.SYNOPSIS:A young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.Braced somewhere between film-as-therapy and surreal performance-art project, Honey Boy is a Shia LaBeouf-penned collaboration with Alma Har’el (Bombay Beach), not-so-loosely […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Color Out of Space
Color Out of Space, 2019.Directed by Richard Stanley. Starring Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, and Madeleine Arthur.SYNOPSIS:A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic.The trio of Nicolas Cage, H.P. Lovecraft and cult filmmaker Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil) make for compelling bedfellows in this unexpectedly hilarious sci-fi horror, which with an atmosphere […]
Movie Review – Synchronic (2019)
Synchronic, 2019.Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, and Katie Aselton.SYNOPSIS:Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are two of the most distinctive indie genre filmmakers working today, their […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Disappearance of My Mother
The Disappearance of My Mother, 2019.Directed by Beniamino Barrese. Starring Beniamino Barrese and Benedetta Barzini.SYNOPSIS:A once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze.Beniamino Barrese’s deeply intimate directorial debut […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Monsoon
Monsoon, 2019.Directed by Hong Khaou. Starring Henry Golding and Parker Sawyers.SYNOPSIS:Kit, a British Vietnamese man, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years, after fleeing during the Vietnam-American War.Hong Khaou’s follow-up to his 2014 debut Lilting is a similarly sober offering that, despite its scant 86-minute runtime, is in no rush whatsoever to […]
Movie Review – Monos (2019)
Monos, 2019.Directed by Alejandro Landes. Starring Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson, Sofia Buenaventura, Karen Quintero, Julian Giraldo, Laura Castrillón, Deibi Rueda, Paul Cubides, Sneider Castro, Wilson Salazar, and Jorge Román.SYNOPSIS:On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.Colombia’s official entry for the upcoming Academy Awards – the second […]
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