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Movie criticism (mostly foreign films, documentaries and independents: big Hollywood product hardly needs more marketing), very occasional interviews from James van Maanen, now 80 years old, who began his late-career movie reviewing for GreenCine, then took the big blog step over a decade ago. He covers new movies, video releases, and occasional streaming choices. You can reach him at JamesvanMaanen@gmail.com

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Schizophrenia explored in Thor Freudenthal & Nick Naveda's adaptation of Julia Walton's WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS

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Who knew that Schizophrenia could be quite so entertaining, moving, funny, and even feel-good as this severe and very problematic mental di...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

New winners from NQV Media, SUR LE DÉPART and THE MALE GAZE: STRIKERS & DEFENDERS

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About as "French" a film as you could ever hope for, HERE AND THERE ( SUR LE DÉPART ) favors that penchant Français for philosop...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Visionaries, both the filmmaker and his subject, grace Michael Almereyda's TESLA

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  If you're already a fan, as I am, of filmmaker Michael Almereyda ( Hamlet , Happy Here and Now , Marjorie Prime ), wild horses couldn...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Another fashion film hits: Reiner Holzemer's MARTIN MARGIELA IN HIS OWN WORDS

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Who? might well be the response of many -- particularly those who do not follow the fashion world religiously -- to the name Martin Margiel...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

A fundamentalist cult gets its comeuppance in Daniel Tucker's NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD

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The film begins with a sermon, in which the preacher seem awfully certain -- as so many of  them are -- that he knows exactly what god ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

What's new from Jeremiah Kipp? Three little videos in the midst of our Covid pandemic.

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TrustMovies tries to follow the work of (mostly) experimental filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp  (shown at right) from time to time and is usually ha...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Blu-ray debut for Phil Goldstone and Frances Hyland's pre-code trailblazer, THE SIN OF NORA MORAN

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You have to try to put yourself back in time close to 90 years in order, I think, to fully appreciate how unusual THE SIN OF NORA MORAN mus...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

The glorious Brian Cox brings János Edelényi's THE CARER to pulsating and delightful life

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A love letter from Hungarian film to British actors, acting and Shakespeare himself (whoever the hell he actually was), THE CARER is al...
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