Tuesday, August 04, 2015

August Reviews

Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke in Mistress America.
These are
the reviews
and other
pieces I'm
working on
this month.





Portland Mercury (The Stranger's sister paper): Noah Baum-
bach and Greta Gerwig's Mistress America Is Cleverly Self-Critical
.


The Stranger Film Openings: The Look of Silence Looks at Genocide from the View of an Optometrist, A Holocaust Survivor Returns from the Dead to Haunt Her Gentile Husband in Phoenix, Listen to Me Marlon Offers a Privileged View of a Legend's Thoughts, Noah Baum-
bach and Greta Gerwig's Mistress America Is Cleverly Self-Critical
, and Orlando Bloom Has Other Things on His Mind in Digging for Fire.

Slog/Film Opening count: 620 posts/reviews since 2011. 

The Stranger Up & Comings: Circuit des Yeux, Marisa
Anderson, somesurprises, and Josh Medina & Paurl Walsh

and Thee Oh Sees, SSDD, Smiling, and Guests.



Video Librarian: Ghosts of Amistad - In the Footsteps of the 
Rebels, Hafu, Out in the Lineup, They Are We, Revenge of the 
Mekons, Zero Motivation, Black Veil Brides - Alive and Burn-
ing [Blu-ray], Glen Campbell - I’ll Be Me, Can’t Stand Losing  
You - Surviving the Police [Blu-ray], I Am Femen, Baby It's You  
[Blu-ray], Heaven Adores You [Blu-ray], and Soaked in Bleach.



Endnote: Mistress America image from Fox Searchlight Pictures.