FERRARI is a haunted, obsessive relationship drama powered by beautiful engines
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
What are the things we desire, and how do we measure that want against the pain and damage they can cause?
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
What are the things we desire, and how do we measure that want against the pain and damage they can cause?
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red Herring
While everything presented by Carax and the brothers Mael feels artful and purposeful, it often lacks focus…
Written and directed by Noah Baumbach
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Merritt Weaver
MPAA rating: R for language throughout and sexual references
Running time: 2 hours and 16 minutes
by Fiona Underhill
The Year of Adam Driver™ has, so far, provided us with the eclectic delights of political thriller The Report (shortly heading to Amazon Prime), Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (still my film of the year thus far), Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die and now Noah Baumbach’s divorce drama for Netflix - Marriage Story. The year will of course round-out with Driver returning as Kylo-Ren in the last in the Star War sequel trilogy. Some might say that five films from one actor in one year is too many and to them I say, if it’s an actor of the caliber of Driver, ten films a year isn’t enough. As someone who has been eagerly watching him since the TV show Girls started in 2012 and experienced his devastating arc in that show, which plays out across the decade, each new Driver film has been a gift. He has worked with everyone from the Coens to Scorsese and collaborated with Baumbach on three previous films, making him pretty much the male version of Greta Gerwig.
Read MoreWritten and directed by Scott Z. Burns
Starring the Amazing Adam Driver, an Awesome Annette Bening, and a boatload of other recognizable actors you love to see
Running time: 1 hour 59 minutes
MPAA rating: R for graphic depictions of violent torture
by Jaime Davis, The Fixer
“I hope you took your strong pills today.”
These are the warning words of Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening) to her staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver), on their way to battle against CIA brass. You see, Jones was tasked with investigating, objectively and without bias, the reported torture of hundreds of suspected terrorists in the wake of 9/11 at the hands of CIA operatives. On one hand it’s a complicated issue - the CIA was in a serious pressure cooker trying to get answers and protect the nation against additional attacks. Which begs the question: what wouldn’t the CIA do, if they thought it would produce anything of substance?
Read MoreWritten and Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Starring Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny and a bunch of other people
Runtime 1 hour, 43 minutes
By Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
“Ghouls.” - said in Adam Driver voice is YES.
The world really didn’t need another zombie movie, or as Adam Driver calls them…ghouls. Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, is comprised of several great scenes but ultimately misses the mark, becoming yet another zombie flick added to the ever-growing pile.
Written by Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Joana Ribeiro
Running time: 2 hours and 12 minutes
by Fiona Underhill
With one of the most infamous gestation periods of any film in movie history, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote couldn't possibly live up to its almost mythical status, right? Well, director Terry Gilliam has achieved something which is almost worth the wait. Gilliam first got the urge to adapt the novel by Miguel de Cervantes in the 1980s, but it wasn't until 1998 that he secured the funding for the project. The production was plagued by natural disasters and illness, went massively over-budget and was never finished. Instead, Gilliam (with Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe) made a documentary called Lost in La Mancha about his quest to finish what seemed like a cursed project. Gilliam made multiple attempts to get the film going (in the twenty years since) with various different lead actors, but it is only now that he has managed to complete his magnum opus. Even now, it is not so simple or cut-and-dried - there has still been a legal dispute over the film's release and its debut at Cannes in 2018 was almost cancelled. On April 10th 2019, the film received a special one-night only engagement in US theatres and it will receive a patchy limited release later in April. If this movie had been given a proper, wide release in the fall or winter, it could have become an awards contender. At the very least, the costumes and production design are spectacular (and Oscar-worthy) and Adam Driver gives one of the best performances this year. If you are lucky enough to live where you get to see this film in a movie theater, please do so - the stunning locations are meant to be seen on a big screen.
Read MoreDirected by Spike Lee
Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier
Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout, including racial epithets, and for disturbing/violent material and some sexual references
By Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Spike Lee is one of the few remaining living legends who still thinks of his own cinema in terms of great shots. I guarantee that, at 61 years of age, the Master still has camera setups and dolly and crane ideas he’s been waiting to spring his entire life but that he’ll never realize. He lives and breathes movies like no one else. Look at the recent output from others of his generation and you won’t find a single sequence as simple or as powerful as the early goings of BlacKkKlansman, where a meeting of the Colorado Springs Black Student Union transforms into a ritualistic, almost holy presentation of black faces, their features emerging from darkness as crisply and elegantly as if they were floating out of a Rembrandt painting.
Read Moreby Liliana Guzman
You might say Paterson is a movie where nothing happens. A man named Paterson, lives in Paterson, New Jersey and drives a bus. He wakes up around the same time every morning, kisses his wife goodbye, and goes to work. After driving his rounds he comes home, walks the dog, hits up the neighborhood bar, and goes to bed. We join him on his daily routine and nothing too exciting happens…right? Well maybe on the surface, but Paterson invites us to dive deeper than that, to not look past the details and to notice the little things that we experience each day.
Read MoreDirected by Jeff Nichols (2016)
by Jaime Davis
The Fixer at Moviejawn
There's a scene in Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter (2011) where Curtis (Michael Shannon) slowly walks through his living room, soaked in blue, taking everything in. At first, we catch only a glimpse of his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), her back to us as she appears to be cooking at the stove. Something about her slack posture and lack of movement suggests something is, well, off. Back to Curtis as he moodily walks through his home, and then back to Samantha, who by now is staring back at us, strangely, inexplicably dripping wet. Her expression and movements are odd, as are Shannon's: almost imperceptible, minute, dreamlike. Because this is indeed a dream. A pretty fucking creepy one, in fact. It almost feels like a scene from a horror movie, the kind they make in Japan but then remake in the U.S. to little effect. But this is not a horror movie, no, not quite.
Read More