Author: Jonathan Eig
AFI 2018 European Union Film Showcase: Part Two
The first full week of the 2018 AFI EU Film Showcase featured some frothier confections than the opening weekend, which I covered previously. More comedies and romances took center stage, but if some hit a little less hard than the selections from the opening weekend, many were no less interesting to watch. Love Revisited (Oude…
Celebrating 50 years of ‘Memories of Underdevelopment’
It was late March, 1972, and at the Olympia Theater on Broadway, New York film fans were eagerly anticipating a series of Cuban movies, kicked off by Humberto Solas’s historical epic Lucia. The screening was interrupted by a stink bomb – and by the appearance of rats – both reportedly the work of anti-Castro protestors.…
American Film Institute: The 2018 European Union Film Showcase
The 31st edition of the American Film Institute’s European Union Film Showcase kicked off on Friday November 30. 49 new movies from 25 EU nations. Eleven of them are representing their countries in the Oscar Foreign Language Film category. Many more have won awards at international festivals. It is a yearly highlight for film fans…
Women in Film: Are things looking up in 2018?
In the final two months of 2018, here in the States, several intriguing movies centered on women will be released. Diverse genres will be represented, including the star vehicle (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which is already generating Oscar buzz for Melissa McCarthy), period ensembles (The Favourite, which has already won awards at the Venice…
2018 At The Movies: The Story So Far
It’s September. Here in the States, that means the school year is starting and the new car models are coming out. The NFL is revving up. Soon the leaves will turn. And soon, the fancy movies will start appearing. You know the movies I mean. The ones where some producer is looking for an award.…