Then Playing — Jewel Robbery; Pennies from Heaven; The Royal Hotel
Reviews of films directed by William Dieterle, Herbert Ross, and Kitty Green. Continue reading Then Playing — Jewel Robbery; Pennies from Heaven; The Royal Hotel
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Top Ten Movies of 2020 — Number Nine
There isn’t much dispute about which showbiz bigwig inspired the largely unseen and unheard boss that hangs like a black cloud over writer-director Kitty Green’s The Assistant. It’s a credit to Green’s film that spotting the parallels to salacious, anger-inducing … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2020 — Number Nine
Then Playing — Emma.; The Assistant; Swallow
Emma. (Autumn de Wilde, 2020). Director Autumn de Wilder and screenwriter Eleanor Catton bring a touch of the rambunctious to this adaption of Jane Austen’s novel about sprightly busybody Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy). There’s no wholesale reinvention of the story, … Continue reading Then Playing — Emma.; The Assistant; Swallow
Coffee for Two 