Toba Singer
When my son was six and a student at Mountaineer Montessori School, he learned the Shaker hymn, “’Simple Gifts.” “I hate that song,” he said to me one afternoon, as we drove away from his school. His vehemence took me ...
George Wu
Aside from the time Warner Bros. poured a fortune into the first two Christopher Reeve "Superman" movies, superhero films languished for a generation. Comic book artists can draw on paper for comparatively nothing what no movie budget can match. It ...
Andrew OsborneAustin,
Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" chronicles an epic battle for control of a fully immersive, massively multiplayer online virtual reality space known as the OASIS where users escape the depressing dystopic reality of the story's 2045 setting.
Based ...
Other Films Andrew Osborne screened at South-by-Southwest Film Festival in Austin
Andrew OsborneAustin,
I recently shared my Top Five favorite films of the 2018 South-by-Southwest festival, but what about the other screenings I attended? What didn't quite make the list (and why)? Well, let's start with the...
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Andrew Osborne's first review back from the South-by-Southwest Festival
Andrew OsborneAustin,
The 2018 South-by-Southwest Film Festival featured 130+ movies over the course of nine days, making it literally impossible for anyone to see more than a fraction of the premieres and festival favorites available for review. For strategic reasons, ...
Paula Farmer
For those more accustomed to the light touch and whimsical ways of director Cédric Kaplisch (“L’auberge Espagnole” and “Russian Dolls”), which is attributed to a big portion of his body of work, his ...
George Wu
"Ismael's Ghosts" is director Arnaud Desplechin's sixth outing with actor Mathieu Amalric. With such fantastic works as "My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument," "Kings & Queen," and "A Christmas Tale" between them, it's a collaboration as ...
Paula Farmer
As the title would suggest, this is a cold, somewhat hard-to-watch film in which the two main characters are bitter and selfish people. Zhenya and Boris are at the tail end of a vicious divorce, with both determined to ...
Andrew OsborneAustin,
"Analysis paralysis" is slang for an inability to make a decision. When the condition becomes chronic, it's known as aboulomania. And when it involves 132 feature films screening for a week-plus in March (alongside shorts, TV ...
Paula Farmer
This stunning drama from the Middle East called "The Insult," could have been titled 'A Simple Apology,' with the conflict, the story's entire premise resolved quickly and easily with those two ever elusive words, "I'm sorry." Instead it proves ...
