Your regular field guide to the world of movies in your living room and beyond.
energy, one we hope to see continue through the summer. I will personally be seeing a movie projected in a theater for the first time in nearly 15 months this upcoming week, not once but twice.
to Stone, Gillespie, production designer Fiona Crombie and costume designer Jenny Beavan, who won an Oscar for her work on “Mad Max: Fury Road.”As Stone said of the unlikely collision of punk-era London and a Disney origin story, “It was a time where there was a big shift into counterculture and [the] Sex Pistols, anti-establishment mentality. Obviously this is a Disney movie about a villain. This isn’t really as punk as it gets.
explores the lives of four writers from the same province as Jia, creating a tapestry about changes to life in China from the 1950s onward. The film is playing locally at the Laemmle Royal.wrote, “Like so much of this director’s work — including his earlier films ‘Dong’ and ‘Useless’ , with which it forms a loose trilogy of documentaries about artists — ‘Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue’ resists the obvious, even when it finally reveals the meaning behind its poetic title.