Recommended Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962) was for many of its participants the end of the line. It was star Doris Day’s last musical, innovative choreographer-director Busby Berkeley’s last movie, and co-star Jimmy Durante’s last major film role
Highly Recommended The Movie: When Dawn Brancheau died at an Orlando, Florida SeaWorld in February 2010, Gabriela Cowperthwaite learned about the incident and the subsequent furor that came about afterwards, and was inspired to make a film surrounding the incident. What she found over the course of filming shocked the documentary filmmaker and former SeaWorld patron, and her attempts to document …
Highly Recommended The Film : Neil Jordan’s Byzantium emerges just as the recurrent vampire “craze” has started to lower back into its grave, where those popular franchises that capitalized on the trend have either wrapped up or are settling into a formulaic reputation out of the spotlight. Instead of clashing with conventions that everyone knows and relishes, this marks an ideal time for …
Highly Recommended Ang Lee’s Life of Pi isn’t a film aimed at American audiences; it’s aimed at everyone , for better or worse.
New and notable this week on DVD: “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”