A complicated modern romance with the sensibility of a 19th century English novel. Our best living filmmaker, Paul Thomas Anderson, rises to the occasion once again. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War” Finally available as it should be seen (thank you Film Forum and Quad), one of the great films of all time.Ģ. That’s right, over 80 years ago Jean Renoir saw Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein coming. Sexual harassment in the workplace, income disparity, exploitation of the artist as a human being. Jean Renoir’s “The Crime of Monsieur Lange” (1935) Seen “Phantom of Liberty” lately? We are living in a Buñuel movie, my friends. Endured 2017 by finding salvation in movies (and plays and books).īest movies I saw this year (Sony Pictures Classics movies exempted per usual):ġ. Grappling the incomprehensible by reading “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire,” by Kurt Anderson and revisiting Luis Buñuel.
“We bring our entire histories when we watch a movie - our childhood reveries, our adolescence yearnings and adult reservations.” -Manohla Dargis NYT Ģ017. Michael Barker, Co-President, Sony Pictures Classics
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