Approaching the Elephant (Wilder Films, NR)
Wilder smartly resists the urge to make a statement on this type of schooling.
March 2016
I Saw the Light (Sony Pictures Classics, R)
Maybe this film will recruit new members for the church of Williams, even if it isn’t able to successfully preach to the choir.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Vol. XXXV (Shout! Factory, NR)
As a group, these films stand as testimony that if you want to make a movie, you should just do it, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
The Primary Instinct (Kino Lorber, NR)
There’s nothing fancy in the camerawork or the editing, but the film works because Tobolowsky loves telling stories, and he’s good at it.
The Winter (IndiePix Films, NR)
It takes the viewer into a world of nightmares and dreamscapes where past and present, and truth and imagination, all run together.
CodeGirl (Kino Lorber, NR)
CodeGirl is an inspiring film and will be of particular interest to young women interested in technology and their parents and teachers.
Chantal Akerman: Four Films (Icarus Films, NR)
You might say that she makes her directorial choices deliberately visible, as opposed to the “invisible” style used in most commercial filmmaking.
Switch #1-2 (Image/Top Cow)
Artist Stjepan Šejić reinvents Witchblade as a modern teen superhero.
The Girl Loves Ink | Amadeo, Maladeo, and Reading Ladders
Inspired by R.O. Blechman’s Amadeo & Maladeo, Catherine explores the idea of the right read for the right reader at the right time.
Ari Rabin-Havt & Media Matters | Lies, Incorporated (Anchor)
There is a Bizarro World out there, one growing larger every day, filled with “facts” backed up by “research” by “impartial authorities.”