Around the midway point of Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” Miguel (Manolo Solo) picks up a guitar and croons “My…
Author: Kevin Parks
Every year, I make a point of checking in on my favorite films. Rewatching great films can be soothing and…
The meme-able moments come early and often in Les Blank’s “Burden of Dreams” (1982). And it’s not just the towering…
The best role Shelley Duvall played was herself. No one could do it better. Plenty have tried: I recently rewatched…
Silence reigns for so much of Angela Schanelec’s bold, brooding and stealthily uplifting “Music” that the title itself starts to…
To mark the New York premiere of Annie Baker’s “Janet Planet,” the writer/director programmed a 17-film series, titled “Angels and…
A meandering microscope on pleasure, pain and simply dealing with people, Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing…
Theda Hammel’s “Stress Positions” is an unapologetic steamroller, a high-octane hangout comedy that remarkably conjures a sense of nostalgia for…
Leave it to Ken Loach, that grizzled realist, a seven-decade surveyor of the British working class, to make a sly…
Rare is the film that ought to be longer; bad films are often too long and the greatest are able…