The Souvenir
An extraordinary and deeply personal exploration on deep memories and experiences, British writer-director Joanna Hogg's fourth feature film, "The Souvenir" is an astonishing origin story that is deeply auto-biographical, and [...]
Non-Fiction
Greatly influenced by the works of Erik Rohmer that also plays out like an excellent Woody Allen comedy like "Husbands and Wives", French auteur Olivier Assayas has crafted a sharply [...]
Under the Silver Lake
I really wanted to rate "Under the Silver Lake" a higher rating, in fact there is a lot to love about the film. It is technically marvelous, aesthetically rich, beautifully [...]
Ash Is Purest White
An official selection at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it was in competition for the Palme D'Or that went to Hirokazu Kore-eda's masterpiece, "Shoplifters" (placed 3rd in my top [...]
Monsterpalooza 2019: Douglas Schulze’s Mimesis: Nosferatu
In 1992, a decade before Michigan took a great interest in film with tax credits and film incentives, and the growing accessibility of digital film technology that makes it even [...]
The Beach Bum
Iconic independent filmmaker Harmony Korine has now spent three decades writing and directing feature films that explore the decadence of youth culture and even mankind as a whole . He [...]
Michigan Short Film Round-Up (May 2019 Edition)
By Robert Joseph Butler|05/24/2019|
Short films just as feature films invoke emotions. Sadly there isn't much of a market for short films since there are so many of them, and people prefer to not [...]