Sean Baker’s “Anora” is a wild, raucous ride, sprinting across a high-wire while somehow maintaining its composure. A filmmaking style…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in Manhattan with his family. In addition to film criticism, he writes short fiction. Kevin's main area of interest is misunderstood older films, which he prefers to watch either at NYC's Film Forum or on DVD at home.
Around the midway point of Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” Miguel (Manolo Solo) picks up a guitar and croons “My…
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…