reviews
‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’: Rediscovering the wheel
February 3, 2022The films of Japanese film director and screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi lodge in your brain and heart like small incendiary devices, ticking from his self-awareness toward yours. What did the character mean by that? How does that...
Read more‘Drive My Car’: It’s the journey
December 28, 2021Writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has fashioned a brilliant study of relationships and love, need and understanding.
Read moreWest Side Stories, including the latest Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner film
December 20, 2021Recorded just days after West Side Story opened on Broadway in September 1957, Columbia Records producer Goddard Lieberson’s brilliant original Broadway cast recording was my first acquaintance with Leonard Bernstein’s musical score for the updated version...
Read moreThe Toronto International Film Festival and the world
November 10, 2021One of the most revolutionary films at TIFF this year was Tug of War from the relatively unknown autonomous region of Zanzibar. There’s never been a major movie from this island that lies just off the...
Read more‘The Children’: Play tackles generational responsibility
November 10, 2021“The moral dilemma is: what world are we leaving to our children?”
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