Christopher Plummer is the traveling showman as steampunk fantasist in this carny sideshow of a Faust tale, costarring Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell.
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Peter Weir’s ‘The Way Back’ on Hulu
The Way Back (2010), filmmaker Peter Weir’s first film since Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in 2003, is a protean survival drama with a human grounding. The film was barely seen in theaters, receiving a belated, haphazard release after studio delays and critical neglect. Even with a cast headed by Ed […]
Love is strange: ‘The Lobster’ free on Kanopy and Hoopla
Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos describes his English language debut The Lobster (2015) as his film about love (following Dogtooth, his film on life, and Alps, on death). Which is not necessarily to call it a love story. It is, in its own way, but it just as much about the social expectations of love and […]
Jessica Chastain is ‘Miss Julie’ on Amazon Prime Video
You can imagine Miss Julie (2014), Liv Ullman’s screen adaptation of the August Strindberg play, as a call back to the classic 1951 Swedish screen adaptation by Alf Sjöberg, who was a mentor to Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish master who directed Ullman to some of her greatest performances. Ullman directed Bergman’s screenplay in Faithless and […]