Film (2012)
Written and Directed by Jeff Kaufman
New York Film Festival
A view into the life of Chick Webb, the amazingly talented, dwarfed and hunchbacked, drummer and bandleader who ran the show at The Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the early half of the twentieth century. It was with his band at The Savoy that Ella Fitzgerald got her start.
Movies
The Master
Film (2012)
Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
A masterfully done film in many ways that is, like its subject, missing something crucial in its narrative core.
Sleepwalk with Me
Film (2012)
Directed by Mike Birbiglia
Co-Director: Seth Barrish
Screenplay by
Mike Birbiglia, Joe Birbiglia,
Ira Glass, Seth Barrish
A sweetly amusing account of a a comedian’s emerging career, his relationship sailing upwind, and his susceptibility to sleepwalking, all to some peril.
Samsara
Film (2012)
Kendall Square Cinema
A sweeping, non-narrative journey across the dimensions of earthly existence, epic in scope, with many brutally vivid moments.
Little White Lies
Film (2010)
Written and directed by Guillaume Canet
A French variant of The Big Chill (1983) – though not consciously – with a beautiful group of Gallic thirty, forty and fifty somethings.