“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band,” director Thom Zimny’s latest documentary film about The Boss, is a peek behind the curtain of the six-decades-long creative collaboration between the legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist and the musicians that make up The E Street Band. Filmed during the first year of the band’s most … Read more
There was an abundance of music documentaries at TIFF last year for what feels like an obvious reason: musicians aren’t actors or directors. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes so limited the red-carpet star power at the event that the programmers needed to find a way around them, and so getting Paul Simon, Lil Nas X, … Read more
Just like Vegas, Telluride Film Festival has an unspoken ethos: “What happens in — stays in —.” While part of me wants to keep all of its secrets to myself, I can’t help but become an open book when it comes to talking about Telluride and its infamously exclusive film festival. In both 2022 and … Read more
Beyond the competition, there are dozens of other films to be captivated by here at Cannes, many solidly fitting under the “genre” umbrella. For decades, these films have never received the respect of auteur-driven institutions like Cannes. But given the state of the global marketplace and how these elements of action, horror, etc. have proved … Read more
Robert Bresson does nothing in a superficial way to please his audiences. The rewards of his films unfold slowly from their stories, and pierce deeply. He is very serious about human nature and the indifference of the world. He is not a Catholic but an agnostic who values any consolation his characters can find, in … Read more
But what made the piece lodge in my mind and redirect my perception of the movie was two sentences: “The locals gossip that he’s a drunk, because of his diet, but we never see him drunk. Bresson often fills the frame with his face, passive, and the stare of his unfocused eyes.” Roger was a … Read more