Friends, I've got flu and laryngitis and am in no shape to research and post a full week of screening picks at the moment, so for now I will just call your attention to a couple of screenings tonight (Tuesday): the Dal Art Gallery's screening...
This Friday, Carbon Arc has its third documentary in a row, School Life, "the most adorable documentary that Frederick Wiseman never made," about the only primary-age boarding school in Ireland. The Canadian-Irish co-production The Breadwinner, a story of childhood set in Taliban-controlled Kabul—and a 2018 Oscar nominee...
Faces Places, the "unexpected—and perhaps final—gift from the visionary eighty-nine-year-old director Agnès Varda," is the film that has given Varda a chance to claim this year's Best Documentary Feature Oscar, just months after becoming the first female director to receive an honorary Oscar. Carbon Arc...
Carbon Arc programs its first feature-length film of its winter-spring season this Friday with the African sensation Fèlicité, Senegal's nominee for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Feature, and winner of the Berlinale's Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, best film at FESPACO 2017 (Africa's biggest film festival),...