This week on The Movie Gourmet, I’m just back from another indelible experience at Noir City, and I have posted a new review of the dreary and odd The Testament of Ann Lee and my ruminations on the Oscar nominations. I am waiting for the wide release of A Private Life with Jodie Foster acting in French and the epic Magellan.
We’re heading into a few months with comparatively few promising theatrical and online release. It’s still a busy time for me, as I cover film festivals: Slamdance, Cinequest, SLO Film Fest and SFFILM. But it’s a great time for everyone to catch up at home with the:
CURRENT MOVIES
- No Other Choice: keeping up with the Parks. In theaters
- Hamnet: a grieving couple finally aligned. In theaters.
- It Was Just an Accident: trauma, justice and complications. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- A Little Prayer: comfortable, then bewildered. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- My Dead Friend Zoe: getting to resilience. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Train Dreams: quietly thinking and quietly feeling. Netflix.
- Left-Handed Girl: a family’s path to to catharsis. Netflix.
- Marty Supreme: a portrait of chutzpah. In theaters.
- Sentimental Value: generational healing. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Jay Kelly: finding that the ship has sailed. Netflix.
- My Neighbor Adolf. more than a match of wits. In arthouse theaters.
- Cover Up: muckraking back in the day. Netflix
- You Got Gold: why John Prine is admired and beloved. In theaters, but hard to find.
- The Testament of Ann Lee: dreary, self-important and odd, In theaters.
ON TV
January 31 Deliverance And then we have another classic just as INTENSE: Deliverance from 1972. It’s one of my all-time favorites – still gripping today – with a famous scene that still shocks. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox form an impressive ensemble cast. Beautifully and dramatically shot by the late great cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond.
