more by George Sax
published on Mar. 15, 2017 12am
The movie version of Julian Barnes’s prize-winning short novel is another episode in the contested history of books-into-film.
published on Feb. 15, 2017 8pm
This obscure Hollywood film based on William Faulkner’s 1948 novel is one of the few American movies concerned with the history of white-racist suppression and violence against African-Americans, as well as a crack piece of movie craft and art.
published on Dec. 20, 2016 11pm
La La Land is like a present-day Fame for mature audiences.
published on Nov. 16, 2016 1am
You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy this movie. But it couldn’t hurt.
published on Nov. 22, 2016 4pm
Warren Beatty is no Howard Hughes (nor a Donald Trump), but this movie is unmistakably more about him than Hughes.
published on Oct. 26, 2016 12am
Local musicians play with and pay homage to Buffalo-born composer Nils Vigeland.
published on Oct. 19, 2016 12am
A good introduction to the subject of the Holocaust and an implicit lesson in contemporary provocateur politics.
published on Oct. 5, 2016 12am
Vengeance and voguing in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s new film.
published on Sep. 21, 2016 12am
Come What May is a bona fide war movie. The Hollars begs a question of Tolstoy.
published on Sep. 14, 2016 12am
Damned if the often erratic, polemically unhinged Oliver Stone hasn’t just about brought this thing off.