This week, The Movie Gourmet has launched The Last Movie Title series, with posts on The Last Seduction, Last Days in Vietnam and The Last Valley. Next week, The Last Movie, itself.
Don’t overlook the beginning the Best Movies of 2025 – So Far, the running list that I update throughout the year. The big Oscar movies, with their November and December release dates, await. I am most eagerly anticipating Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Lynne Ramsey’s Die My Love, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-handed Girl, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Christian Petzold’s Mirrors No. 3 and the Palm d’Or winner at Cannes, It Was Just an Accident.
CURRENT MOVIES
- Mr. Nobody Against Putin: the first casualty of war is truth. In theaters.
- The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival: a daring icon revealed. In select theaters.
- To Kill a Wolf: mysteries revealed. Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango
- East of Wall: horse riding through trauma. In theaters, but getting hard to find.
- Shoshana: two lovers amid a deepening conflict. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan: a courageous surprise hiding in celebrity. Netflix.
- Sorry, Baby: smart, funny and on the path to healing. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Honey Don’t: kinda funny, disposable. In theaters.
- Caught Stealing: Aronofsky picked off first base. In theaters.
ON TV
On October 4, Turner Classic Movies will air a big Oscar movie from 1979 that we don’t hear that much about anymore – All That Jazz. The director and co-writer Bob Fosse unsparingly tells his own story of artistic obsession peppered with compulsive womanizing and drug use. Fosse was a great and groundbreaking dancer and choreographer, and won five Tonys for Broadway choreography. He is the only person to win a directing Oscar (Cabaret), Tony and Emmy in the same year (1973). Roy Scheider garnered one of All That Jazz’s eight Oscar nominations for his searing performance as Fosse’s on-screen surrogate. The supporting performances are outstanding, especially Ann Reinking’s, essentially playing herself and Leland Palmer’s, playing a character much like Fosse’s wife and longtime collaborator Gwen Verdon. Try not to tear up at the birthday number performed by Reinking and the director’s tween daughter (Erzebet Foldi). All That Jazz is on my list of the 50 Greatest Movies of All Time.
