Tag: Reed Birney

Strawberry Mansion | Review

In Dreams: Audley & Birney Conjure a Candy Colored Clown They Call the Tax Man A shimmering, nostalgic daydream which plays with parameters of the...

2021 Gotham Awards Noms: Test Pattern Lands Trio; Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” to Duke it Out with Rebecca Hall’s “Passing”

An indie film that had it's world premiere at the Blackstar Film Festival (coined as the Black Sundance) in 2019 and was released by...

The Forty-Year-Old Version | Review

What Happens to a Dream Deferred?: Blank Finds the Beauty of Herself in Striking Debut Writer/director Radha Blank arrives in the wake of an opulent...

The Hunt | Review

The Most Capitalist Game: Zobel Skewers Class Consciousness with Ribald Satire Social satire is perhaps the only conducive way to narratively navigate the ills...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp

Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...

Mad Women | Review

Women on the Verge: Lipsky’s Overwrought Portrait of Dysfunction Those having experienced the independent cinema styling of Jeff Lipsky won’t be surprised by the end...

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