Phil Coldiron

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Rowlands, Forster and Sid: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Phil Coldiron
Friday Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives moves from the Royal Theater to the Sunset 5. The UCLA Film and Television Archive's Festival of Preservation continues at 7:30 p.m. with Robert Parrish's visually spare noir Cry Danger (1951). The film features a funnier-than-usual script and a bitter-as-usual performance......

The Power of the Powerless

Phil Coldiron
THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS condenses 43 years of Czechoslovakian history into 80 minutes, moving from the popular election of a Communist government after World War II (and its shift into a totalitarian regime following the coup d'état of February 1948) to the Velvet Revolution of 1989.  If this were......

Forget Me Not

Phil Coldiron
FORGET ME NOT The debut feature of co-directors Alexander Holt and Lance Roehrig following two shorts made together, Forget Me Not is a two-hander in the vein of Linklater's Before films. Guy (Tobias Menzies) meets girl (Genevieve O'Reilly) after a mugging attempt forces him to abort his plans of suicide......

Hidden Love

Phil Coldiron
HIDDEN LOVE In voice-over at the beginning of Hidden Love, Danielle (Isabelle Huppert) informs us of her two failed suicide attempts. This scene-setting is the first indication that, to director-writer Alessandro Capone, suicide is just a plot device. These incidents established, the film depicts Danielle's life, which consists mostly of......
RR

James Benning's RR

Phil Coldiron
Is RR an observation or a comment, a film of trains or a film about railroading in America? For nearly two hours James Benning is content to sit with his camera and watch trains pass, and the answer is probably all that and quite a bit more. Whatever RR is,......

AND SOON THE DARKNESS

Phil Coldiron
AND SOON THE DARKNESS It’s never clear exactly why first time director Marcos Efron though it would be a good idea to remake And Soon the Darkness, a horror movie about two girls on a bike trip that’s probably the worst of underappreciated British director Robert Fuest’s films from the......

MESKADA

Phil Coldiron
MESKADA Josh Sternfield's policier about the murder of a child during a botched robbery in a fictional Appalachian county succeeds so long as it could be confused for an RKO product that trades the grit for an abridged version of the Southern-fried lyricism of David Gordon Green and Jeff Nichols......