2020
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds by Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog’s Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds tracks the common meteor from outer space to strikes around the world, continuing the collaboration between the indestructible German-born Herzog, now 78, one of the greatest rogue filmmaking adventurers of all time and Cambridge University Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer,
Harlan Jacobson Provides Highlights from the 58th NY Film Festival
When you see 2020, this strange year, it has in its way helped all of us to have occasional bouts of perfect vision: What’s important. Who’s important...
Harlan Jacobson Reports from Sundance 2020
2020 is when you see perfectly. The 35th Sundance Film Festival under the direction of Robert Redford concluded this weekend in Park City, Utah
Harlan Jacobson Reviews Da 5 Bloods
Spike Lee has made some 25 feature films and five documentaries in a career devoted to putting the black American experience onscreen. His latest film is Da 5 Bloods.
Harlan Jacobson Reviews Greyhound directed by Aaron Schneider
Spike Lee has made some 25 feature films and five documentaries in a career devoted to putting the black American experience onscreen. His latest film is Da 5 Bloods.
Harlan Jacobson reviews Hillbilly Elegy directed by Ron Howard
Hillbilly Elegy came a callin’ on Netflix in time for Thanksgiving to remind us about how complicated the notion of family really is.
Harlan Jacobson Reviews Invisible Man directed by Leigh Whannell
Writer-director Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man is only “inspired by” HG Wells’ original 1897 novel. And it’s not a remake of James Whale’s classic 1933 film starring a young Claude Rains as Dr. Jack Griffin, a murderous scientist. It’s not about the discontents of an invisible man at all, in fact. It is anything but.
Harlan Jacobson reviews Ma Rainey's Black Bottom directed by George C. Wolfe
Just the sound of the title, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, as it rolls off the tongue, promises some kind of lusty commitment to a life of defiance, like we’re in for a wild ride in a convertible careening out of control.
