by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Jul 19, 2023 | Home-Page, Movie Maker Notes, Tench's Topics
The following article was first published by APNEWS (Associated Press)
Christopher Nolan has never been one to take the easy or straightforward route while making a movie. He shoots on large-format film with large, cumbersome cameras to get the best possible cinematic image. He prefers practical effects over computer-generated ones and real locations over soundstages — even when that means recreating an atomic explosion in the harsh winds of the New Mexico desert in the middle of the night for “Oppenheimer,” out July 21. Though, despite internet rumors, they did not detonate an actual nuclear weapon…
by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Jul 12, 2023 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics
The following article was published by IndieWire.com
Greta Lee is absolutely miraculous in a fluid and tender love story about a Korean immigrant split between two men and herself…
by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Jul 7, 2023 | Home-Page, Journal, Movie Maker Notes, Tench's Topics
(Reprinted from Virginian-Pilot) For nearly two decades, Mal Vincent stood in front of crowds each summer at Norfolk’s Naro Expanded Cinema just before the lights dimmed and classic films rolled onto the screen. The Virginian-Pilot’s movie critic introduced each movie as part of his film festival, “Mal’s Movies,” in an inimitable and rich Southern accent.
by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | Jun 22, 2023 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics
The following article was published by IndieWire.com
What starts as just another immaculate Wes Anderson comedy eventually becomes the most cosmic and radical of them all.
Like any movie by Wes Anderson, “Asteroid City” is the epitome of a Wes Anderson movie. A film about a television program about a play within a play “about infinity and I don’t know what else” (as one character describes it), this delightfully profound desert charmer — by far the director’s best effort since “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and in some respects the most poignant thing he’s ever made…
by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | May 26, 2023 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics
The following article was published by IndieWire.com
“I wish that so many movies were a half hour shorter”
BY JIM HEMPHILL
“You Hurt My Feelings” is the latest exquisitely mounted comedy from writer-director Nicole Holofcener, the American cinema’s master of marital unease. The premise is classic Holofcener: A writer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) overhears her husband (Tobias Menzies) saying what he really thinks of her work and reevaluates what she thought she knew about her relationship and, by extension, her own identity.
by Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema | May 4, 2023 | Home-Page, Tench's Topics
…When Blume began writing for pre-teens and teens in the ’70s and ’80s, young readers devoured her novels, which spoke to their hopes and anxieties. Her 1970 book, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret., told the story of an 11-year-old girl who worried that all the other girls were getting their periods, developing breasts and starting to wear bras — but she wasn’t. (That book, too, has been banned in various outlets, including, in the 1970s, at the primary school that Blume’s own children attended.)…
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