Posted 4/16/10 11:26 am EST by Kurt Loder in Reviews
While big-ticket blockbusters flood theatres every week, worthy little indie films gasp for air. The quietly excellent “Handsome Harry” is one of these. The movie debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring, then sat around till September, when indie vet Mark Urman picked it up for his Paladin distribution company. Now here it is, opening this weekend in New York, Los Angeles and Miami (and other cities soon). Better late than undeservedly overlooked. Read More...
Posted 4/21/09 2:01 pm EST by Kurt Loder in Reviews
The Tribeca Film Festival doesn’t officially get underway till Wednesday, but a number of this year’s films have had pre-fest screenings – everything from a documentary by Eric Bana, the actor, about Eric Bana, the race-car driver; and a horror flick about the inadvisability of taking babysitting jobs with practicing Satanists. Two pictures already stand out, though. Both defy genre pigeonholing and both, I think, will be stirring up appreciative buzz over the course of the 12-day festival.
One of these is “Here and There,” a deadpan romantic comedy by Serbian director Darko Lungulov. The movie was shot in both Belgrade, Lungulov’s home town, and New York, where he studied filmmaking. It concerns a glum, down-and-out Manhattan saxophone player named Robert (David Thornton) who in order to make some money accepts an offer by a young Serbian expatriate (Branislav Trifunovic) to travel to Belgrade, marry the guy’s girlfriend (in order to get her a green card) and bring her back to New York. Read More...
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