Near the beginning of the pandemic filmmaker David Siev, who, like his siblings, moved back home to support his parents and the family business they started decades earlier, begins to record a film which will grow into a portrait of the American experience of an Asian-American family through their struggles and triumphs of 2020 in the decidedly white Conservative small town of Bad Axe, Michigan.
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Director Laura Poitras‘ documentary examines the life of artist and activist Nan Goldin. The film touches on pieces of Golden’s life including the crucible of her repressed childhood and discovery of photography and art as a method to deal with the world, her life and growth as a woman and artist in the transgender communities in New York and the post-punk drug culture of the Bowery, and her recent activism against the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma for creating and marketing OxyContin despite knowing its highly addictive qualities (which was the original subject for the documentary which was expanded to be a larger look at Goldin’s life).
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Glass Onion offers the return of writer/director Rian Johnson and star Daniel Craig for another Benoit Blanc mystery. While it might not be quite as good as Knives Out, a near-perfect film that topped my list of Best Movies of 2019, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is still thoroughly entertaining.
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RRR is a revelation. The Telugu-action/drama is insane in all the best ways. Writer/director S.S. Rajamouli offers a fictional account on two historical figures (N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan) each fighting against the early Twentieth Century British imperialist control of India in their own way.
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