Film Critic Harlan Jacobson reports on Sundance 2018 Film Festival for Frankfurter Zeitung – english translation attached. Tune in here for Harlan’s Sundance coverage as heard on WBGO-FM. Read Full Review
WBGO film critic Harlan Jacobson has just returned from the 71st Cannes Film. It’s the highest platform for film art on Planet Earth. One of the films he saw there had some familiarity to it to say the least. Solo: A Star Wars Story is the 10th installment in George Lucas’ saga begun in 1977. Even...
When you think of France, sure you think of cheese and berets, baguettes and love–or at least adultery–and what else? Wine. You think of the Bordeaux you can’t afford, snapped up by those pesky Russian oligarchs and Chinese financiers. Or the Rhones that are earthy, or the Rosés that, while not fine wines are runaway...
The good guys, the bad guys, the good women, the bad women and the missing link in the form of a long, lost son who lays claim to the throne of the fictional, all black Central African, Brigadoon-style republic of Wakanda, are all black. An all black super hero movie? That’s great—if you’re 13. It’s...
It’s been a good December at the movies. Major titles that are out there to see include James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, which finds fun and meaning in the worst movie of all time, The Room, made in 2003 by a couple of strange actors; Guillermo del Toro’s, The Shape of Water, a sugar water addition to his...
It was the worst summer in 25 years in terms of ticket sales. August tickets sales are down 35% from a year ago. The Memorial Day to Labor Day period, which accounts for about two fifths of Hollywood’s annual domestic revenue is on track to fall 16%–worse than the 10% insiders predicted in May. No...
Think of summer and you think of escape. It’s built into the architecture. Hot sun, summer in the city, escape to the beach, escape to the Cape. And go to the movies to escape the escape. How about escape the cops? Traditional summer escape movies have crashed and burned by the dozens this summer. Maybe...
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