This is THE BEST of all the excellent films showing this summer at the Art Museum.
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This charmer stays with you long after the credits roll.
This fast-paced British romp still ranks as one of the funniest films ever made.
Audrey Hepburn is delightful in her big screen debut.
One of the most important films of the 1950s…IMA Outdoor Film Series, June 17
The best biopic so far this year, and a triumphant directorial debut from one of our most consistently great actors.
In summer of 2014, director Richard Linklater reignited Ethan Hawke’s career, providing him with his Oscar-nominated supporting performance in Boyhood. Now, Hawke’s resurgence continues with his portrayal of jazz musician Chet Baker in Robert Budreau’s Born to be Blue – an uncompromising look at a once-promising career shattered by drug abuse. While other notable jazz performers of the 1950s suffered from drug addiction, none of their career trajectories was as disrupted as Baker’s. Over a half-century later, most of us can rattle off names like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong. Chet Baker? Now that’s another story. Only true [More]
A very good film eerily similar to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Jean-Marc Vallee’s latest picture, Demolition, features the one of the most implausible story lines I’ve ever seen. Some Hollywood motion pictures feel “real.” Yes, Richard Linklater’s modern-day classic Boyhood was a story written for the big screen, but it felt like we were watching real life. By contrast, most Hollywood pictures feel “written.” In other words, when characters feel the need to explain what they are doing and why, “real life” ceases to be a part of the equation. And why do screenwriters resort to verbal clarification? Usually, it’s because the plots they create could never happen in real life. [More]
Surprisingly boring biopic of the country music legend.