A series of accolades regarding Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes:
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Author: Steven Strauss
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS (Luc Besson)
Looks like I’m going to have to start the cult fan-club for Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
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A WOMAN’S LIFE (Stéphane Brizé)
A Woman’s Life is French screenwriter/director’s Stéphane Brizé’s achingly human (his signature brand!) riff on Jane Austen-fare, based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant.
COLOSSAL, The Worst Movies of the Year, and Neon’s Pre-Show Short-Films
The potential impact of Colossal’s creative premise is needlessly spoiled by the trailer.
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BUSTER’S MAL HEART (Sarah Adina Smith)
Unlike most enigmatic movies that feel manipulatively vague in order to simplistically drum up the audience’s interest with an artificially confounding plot (the mystery often intentionally masks – through superficially bolstering – a throwaway story in a classic example of style over substance), the structure of Buster’s Mal Heart is not only justified by, but also imperative to cinematically conveying the title character’s reconceptualization of reality.
THE UNTAMED (Amat Escalante)
There’s no way to tame the glorious strange of Amat Escalante’s The Untamed.
THE ORNITHOLOGIST (João Pedro Rodrigues)
João Pedro Rodrigues’ The Ornithologist tries to create a spiritual landscape increasingly detached from logical reality.
CHURCHILL (Jonathan Teplitzky
Masterpiece Theatre, Winston-Churchill edition!
MAUDIE (Aisling Walsh)
Aisling Walsh’s Maudie features two of 2017’s best performances by two of the most woefully unheralded performers of their generations (with weirdly-similar last names): Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins.
Write All Nite 