Second in the City of Love project that began with PARIS, JE TAIME, the ambition of NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU is to explore the many shades, moods, and delusions of attraction that are peculiar to that metropolis. While some could take place in any city where strangers collide in a haze of desire, and… Read More »
RED RIDING HOOD
RED RIDING HOOD begins well in its misguided attempts to plumb the rich territory of what lies beneath the surface of the most persistent of fairy tales, wallowing in the subtext that goes directly to the subconscious, but disguised in a form easily assimilated the most delicate of sensibilities. That remains true here, the unreality… Read More »
NO SUCH THING
You have to take filmmaker Hal Hartly on his own terms. His is a vision of deliberately slow pacing, and dialogue that is spare but pithy, rife with wit. As a result, his deliciously eccentric, stylized films are like no one else’s. You either love them or you hate them. It’s as simple as that.… Read More »