Another Year is a tale of haves and have-nots—those who are touched by grace and those who are not.
This is a film that challenges any sense of resentment in identity building, and for that alone, it deserves wide praise.
Courtney Hunt is now an Oscar nominee thanks to the same AMPAS voters who don’t recoil into the fetal position at the sound of actors reading aloud from a Paul Haggis screenplay.
There are two ways to spin this category.
What’s troubling about this picture of education (as remembering) is that it sounds like nothing new was built, that to learn is not to create.
Writer-director Dan Sallitt joins us to discuss his recent retrospective at Krakow’s First Annual Off-Camera Film Festival.
Happy-Go-Lucky works because the outlines are banal but the performances are phenomenally lived-in.