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Cauleen Smith’s ‘Drylongso’ and Amir Naderi’s ‘The Runner’ show this weekend at Cinema Detroit and the DFT
From decades-past Oakland and Iran, two vivid local portraits screen again
By George Elkind
Tags: Movies, Movies, Drylongso, The Runner, Cauleen Smith, Amir Naderi, Cinema Detroit, Detroit Film Theatre
‘A Couple’ deals in bygone love and longtime loss
One Tolstoy present, the other in absentia in this Frederick Wiseman film screening at the Detroit Film Theatre
Tags: Movies, Movies, Detroit Film Theatre, Frederick Wiseman
‘Close’ struggles to capture the sense of intimacy it promises
Lukas Dhont’s queer coming-of-age story fails to find a proper structure
Tags: Movies, Movies, Lukas Dhont, LGBTQ movies, Eden Dambrine, Émilie Dequenne, Gustav De Waele
Three quasi-westerns by Kelly Reichardt examine America in Cinema Lamont film series
The works screen at Hamtramck’s Oloman Cafe this month
Tags: Movies, Movies, Cinema Lamont, Oloman Cafe, Kelly Reichardt, Meek’s Cutoff, Certain Women, First Cow
With an anniversary re-release, ‘Titanic’ proves unsinkable
James Cameron’s high-melodrama classic holds up as well as ever 25 years later
Tags: Movies, Movies, Titanic, James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Avatar: The Way of Water
‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ centers the work of making a fantasy
The final film in the ‘Magic Mike’ trilogy blows recent musicals out of the water, but labors to account for itself
Tags: Movies, Movies, Magic Mike's Last Dance, Channing Tatum, Steven Soderbergh
M. Night Shyamalan and Brandon Cronenberg each seek thrills their own way
In two new films, vacationers meet differing strains of peril
Tags: Movies, Movies, M. Night Shyamalan, Brandon Cronenberg, Infinity Pool, Knock at the Cabin
The Oscars missed most of 2022’s best movies
The Academy has its own ideas — but we also have ours
Tags: Movies, Movies, Benediction, RRR, Ambulance, The Eternal Daughter, The Stars at Noon, Saint Omer, Crimes of the Future, Decision to Leave, A Night of Knowing Nothing, EO
In trial film ‘Saint Omer,’ rich reflection arises from restraint
Based on the real-life 2013 case of Fabienne Kabou, a woman who was accused of killing her own baby, the drama screens at the Detroit Film Theatre this weekend
Tags: Movies, Movies, Kayije Kagam, Fabienne Kabou, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, DFT, Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA
Thanks to Cinema Lamont, a trio of Assayas’s films comes this month to Hamtramck
An ever-modern director gets a brimming showcase with ‘3XASSAYAS’
Tags: Movies, Movies, Solomon Cafe, Hamtramck, 3XASSAYAS, Olivier Assayas, Oloman Cafe
‘The Way of Water’ re-stages ‘Avatar’ with greater nuance, both narrative and graphic
The sci-fi sequel offers a more thoughtful, carefully shaded version of its predecessor
Tags: Movies, Movies, Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron, Avatar
At Cinema Detroit this week, two tales of parents and daughters
‘Aftersun’ and ‘The Eternal Daughter’ tell stories of daughters at different stages of their lives, and their relationships to their parents
Tags: Movies, Movies, Aftersun, The Eternal Daughter, Cinema Detroit
‘Burn X’ follows a decade of struggle for Detroit firefighters
In a sequel to 2012’s ‘Burn,’ co-directors Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez found ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to document DFD
Tags: Movies, Movies, Burn X, Detroit, firefighters, documentary, Tom Putnam, Brenna Sanchez
Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical ‘The Fabelmans’ reframes an early love of film
Tags: Movies, Movies, Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ asks what it means to be nice
Writer and director Martin McDonagh makes no space for mystery, thumbing the scales on each of the film’s questions
Tags: Movies, Movies, The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Video
The director of ‘Nashville’ and ‘M*A*S*H’ gets an informal retrospective in Detroit this week
In detective tale and artist biopic, two film portraits of indelible eccentricity
Tags: Movies, Movies
In school-age drama ‘Armageddon Time,’ rules prove hard to follow
Bootstraps raise you only so far in James Gray’s latest film
Tags: Movies, Movies, James Gray, Jaylin Webb, Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Armageddon Time
This old silent film is playing in Detroit — and the actors steal the show
You catch the nearly 100-year-old ‘Flesh and the Devil’ in November
Tags: Movies, Movies, Flesh and the Devil, Senate Theater, silent film
With Korean thriller ‘Decision to Leave,’ Park Chan-Wook smartly updates classic noir
The ‘Oldboy’ director stages a comeback
Tags: Movies, Movies, Decision to Leave, Park Chan-Wook, Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Korea, film, noir
In comic satire ‘Triangle of Sadness,’ class unrest brews at sea
Ruben Östlund’s latest film lampoons easy targets, but his commitment to the bit provides it with some sense of transgression
Tags: Movies, Movies, Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Östlund, comedy
Detroit Institute of Arts works to return Indigenous remains and sacred objects amid federal law updates
By Randiah Camille Green
Detroit rappers lend a hand for ‘Veni Vidi Vici’ fashion show
By Kahn Santori Davison
Sidewalk Detroit is planting a ‘remediation forest’ to mitigate air pollution from Stellantis plant