Inside ‘The Great Museum’
The Great Museum Dir. Johannes Holzhausen, Austria, 2014, 94 minutes (Kino-Lorber) The Great Museum is a title that plenty of museums would like to claim. In this quiet measured contemplative look at...
View ArticleNew Directors –’Goodnight Mommy’– Take Off Your Bandage
But Your Nose Is All Wrong Goodnight Mommy, dir. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala New Directors/New Films — at 6:45 tonight at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center In Goodnight Mommy, by Veronika...
View ArticleFIFA — Art Stashed in Castles and Salt Mines
Illustre et Inconnu dirs.. Jean-Pierre Devillers et Pierre Pochart Hitlers Schatz im Berg dirs. Petra Dorrmann und André Schäfer At FIFA – the International Festival of Films on Art At FIFA, the...
View Article‘Amour Fou’ — First Look
If You Love Me, Will You Die for Me? Amour Fou, Dir. Jessica Hausner, Austria/Germany/Luxemburg, 2014, 96 minutes First Look, American Museum of the Moving Image (Film Movement) The title of Amour Fou,...
View ArticleViennale — Comic Classic Kleist and More
Amour Fou — I Know You Love Me, Let’s Die True to form, the 2014 Viennale (Oct. 23 – Nov. 6) mixes new and old, global and local, in 397 films. Its opener tonight is a departure from the Viennale’s...
View ArticleHolocaust Family Therapy –“Six Million and One”
Family Tourism Six Million and One Dir. David Fisher, Israel/Germany/Austria, 2011, 93 minutes (at Lincoln Plaza) Six Million and One is the story of one man’s walk away from Auschwitz, and into a...
View ArticleLooted “Wally” Resurfaces in Village
Portrait of Wally dir. Andrew Shea 7th Art Releasing (at Quad Cinema) When is an art theft not worth reporting? When NPR gets a threat from MoMA. Portrait of Wally makes its “commercial” premiere at...
View ArticleIDFA – Prisoner 67656 –‘Six Million and One’
The Camp After Auschwitz Six Million and One by David Fisher (at IDFA) Among the countless grim stories of the Holocaust, Joseph Fisher’s reaches new depths. Fisher was a prisoner in Auschwitz. When...
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