Megan Ratner's work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Filmmaker, The New York Times, Film Comment, and Frieze. Location, location, location First-world living promotes a comforting fairy-tale that if we all work hard, very hard, the rewards of the market can be ours. But even the most upbeat[…]
Documentaries · Music & Musicals · Reviews
A group of rather spectacular performers – Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright, Kate McGarrigle and Antony among them — gathered at the Sydney Opera House in 2005[…]
Unmasking (the) America(n) Two of the largest influences on postwar American life were the virtual invention of the teenager and self-help. Something for nothing underlies the idea behind each development.[…]
Much to admire, little to love Swank and stately, New York’s gala is like the grande dame of film festivals. Absent the frantic pace of Berlin, Cannes, or Toronto, New[…]
“In short, completely normal.” A great deal of how the Third Reich presented itself and how we have come to know it is visual. Early on, the Nazis understood the[…]
When good ideas go wrong
DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals
While the counterculture turns on, Miles plugs in with startling results
Two sides of the same desperate coin
This year’s fest features a wealth of winners and a few flops
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Corporations, go to the head of the line; everyone else, wait
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
Pay attention to that man behind the curtain
Plumbing the darkness o “sunny Italy” in the 1970s
Olmi’s 1961 masterpiece comes to DVD in an excellent transfer
A son looks at a father and sees much more in this superb doc
Not the best of times, not the worst of times
This year’s NYFF is a decidedly mixed bag of tricks
The ills of this wounded Everyman may be beyond healing.
Postwar despair, Italian style
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
Powell/Pressburger’s fairy tale comes to life on Criterion’s DVD
Fine performances are the main attraction of this timely New York tribute to recent French film.
