I saw the film in January at Sundance, and the feelings it provoked haven’t left me. Distant railroad horns and the epic Rocky Mountain scenery make it inescapably American, and, in a year in which one woman didn’t break the highest glass of all, the domestic struggles of these assertive, more “certain” women - including never-better Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart and breakout Lily Gladstone - carry greater poignancy. Kelly Reichardt‘s mesmerizing triptych sees women battered by society and the bitter Montana breeze. A quiet storm film full#( full review)Īll These Sleepless Nights (Michal Marczak)īlurring the line between documentary and fiction like few films before it, Michal Marczak‘s All These Sleepless Nights is a music-filled ode to the ever-shifting bliss and angst of youth set mostly in the wee hours of the day in Warsaw, Poland. Marczak himself, who also plays cinematographer, is wary to delineate the line between narrative and nonfiction, and part of the film’s joy is forgoing one’s grasp on this altering perspective, rather simply getting wrapped up in the immaculately-shot allure of its location. Beautifully shot by regular cinematographer Yutaka Yamasaki, it marks a welcome and quite brilliant return to serious fare for writer-editor-director Hirokazu Kore-eda following last year’s Our Little Sister, widely regarded as one of the slightest works of his career thus far. – Jordan R.Ĭan our children pick and choose the personality traits they inherit, or are they doomed to obtain our lesser qualities? These are the hard questions being meditated on in After the Storm, a sobering, transcendent tale of a divorced man’s efforts to nudge back into his son’s life. There are also few funnier scenes this year than Billy Crudup‘s William attempting to explain the ending of a certain classic. Without ever hitting a tonal misstep, Mills’ latest feature takes place in a short period of time within relatively few locations, yet seems to pick up every wavelength of the human experience. There’s such a debilitating warmness to both the vibrant aesthetic and construction of its dynamic characters as Mills quickly soothes one into his story that you’re all the more caught off-guard as the flurry of emotional wallops are presented. That emotional profundity most directors try to build to across an entire film? Mike Mills achieves it in every scene of 20th Century Women. Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options - not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves - we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms.
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