Drunk Parents’ ADR dependence is exhibit ∞ of how comedies overlook (pun intended; you’ll see) the importance of visual components to onscreen humor (did you see?).
Author: Steven Strauss
Screwball | Relaxer | Rafiki
A trio of quality goods:
The Public | Suburban Birds | Slut in a Good Way
The third movie’s the charm:
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The Lite Project
The Hummingbird Project is The Social Network Uber-Lite.
Of Horseshoes and Handcuffs
The Mustang‘s a ruminative, understated, cinematic elegy of horseshoes and handcuffs.
‘Peterloo’
Mike Leigh’s Peterloo is a loquacious counterpart to Caryl Churchill’s superior Light Shining in Buckinghamshire:
‘Gloria Bell’
Gloria Bell‘s a masterclass in embedding symbolically-meaningful gestures under a sheen of precisely-constructed realism.
Stray Takes: ‘Apollo 11’
I grew up going to San Diego’s La Paloma Theatre.
One Small Documentary for Man…
The two biggest documentaries of 2019 offer audiences a chance to experience digitally-restored — and thus never-before-seen — footage depicting two of the 20th century’s biggest historical events, the sort you may assume you’ve already witnessed from every conceivable angle.
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