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Director Sierra Falconer’s UCLA Thesis Project, ‘Sunfish (& Other Stories On Green Lake),’ Makes the Big Screen
Green Lake is the hub around which four coming-of-age tales are interwoven, and Falconer does so with a precision that is, if studied, then also gently stated.
A Frustratingly Provocative Documentary, ‘Naked Ambition’ Focuses on ‘Bunny,’ a Woman Photographer Who Broke Into the Pin-Up Industry
Linnea Eleanor Yeager’s nickname didn’t come, as one might suppose, from the mascot of Playboy magazine, it came from a film in which Lana Turner starred as a stenographer named Bunny Smith.
A Celebration of Art Deco at Film Forum, ‘Screen Deco,’ Offers Movie Fans a Chance To See Some Rare Gems
Those with a yen for the off-center will want to sample William Wyler’s ‘Counsellor At Law’ (1933), a melodrama posing as a rat-a-tat-tat comedy, and Edgar G. Ulmer’s ‘The Black Cat’ (1934), a horror film.
An Atypical Cartoonist, Pat Oliphant, Is the Subject of What Must Be Called a Typical Documentary
Bill Banowsky has done his leg work marshalling the facts, but the resulting picture, ‘A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant,’ is conventional in cinematic structure. Still, fans of Oliphant will find much to like.
One of the Progenitors of ‘Mumblecore,’ Jay Duplass, Brings Us an Unexpected Rom-Com, ‘The Baltimorons’
As a director, Duplass has a deft touch, forgoing cinematic flash in the grand pursuit of plumbing the complexities and contradictions of his characters — and these are characters worth knowing.
Don Siegel, a Director Known for His Work With Clint Eastwood, Earns a Retrospective at Manhattan’s Metrograph
Viewers will also learn that Siegel was responsible for ‘the finest sex scene of Walter Matthau’s career,’ in 1973’s ‘Charley Varrick.’
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