5 min movie guide
After The Wedding : life is never the same again
American filmmaker Bart Freundlich’s remake of Danish director Susanne Bier’s Oscar-nominated 2006 film After the Wedding, doesn’t just gender-swap the leads but also provides a role as a powerful business women for his wife Julianne Moore. This however is a patchy melodrama that somehow ensures there is no real surprises in the plot twists…
Driveways : the forming of an intergenerational friendship
For his sophomore feature film director Andrew Ahn took a great leap from his award-winning debut. Spa Night was an exceptional coming-out story of a young Korean/American man who was confused at having a foot in different cultures and as such Ahn’s sympathetic and nuanced tale was a refreshing take on it all. Driveways…
Barbara Rubin and The Exploding NY Underground
This is a rather conventional documentary of a filmmaker who was anything but. Barbara Rubin exploded on the New York underground scene as a teenage when in 1963 her Uncle asked Jonas Mekas a Lithuanian filmmaker known as the godfather of American avant-garde cinema to give her a job. He was more than happy…
Bathtubs over Broadway : the secret world of Industrial Shows
Thank goodness there are still a handful of obsessive compulsive eccentrics in the world who both enlighten and delight us all with some fascinating project that we would otherwise never ever know about. Steve Young a head writer on David Letterman’s TV Show had created a segment for the Late Night Host where he…
