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- LizFlix Reviews: Du Levande (You, The Living) (reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
Du Levande (You, The Living) seems an incredible piece of work to me, partly because I understand it, and (mostly) because I don’t. Swedish director Roy Andersson takes us, the living, through the complete range of human emotions with his darkly comic, unabashedly funny, and almost unbearably depressing short, sketch-like stories surrounding characters who are [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Who Is KK Downey? (reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
“This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events, locals, or persons, living or dead, is fucking coincidental.”
The opening on-screen disclaimer for Who Is K.K. Downey? makes it pretty obvious that this is a film filled with social satire. Up for laughs is the hipster subculture obsessed with indie music and ironic, [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Phoebe in Wonderland (reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
I saw Phoebe in Wonderland at the 2008 Philadelphia Film festival, shortly after the movie premiered at Sundance earlier in the year. I was slightly wary of seeing yet another cushy fairytale film starring a Fanning sister, but since the movie promised some dysfunctional preadolescent preoccupations, I though it might be worth watching Elle enact [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: First Person (world premiere reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
First Person is an unobtrusive documentary investigation into the lives of six Philadelphia high school students, kids ‘struggling’ against the obstacles in front of and the odds against their realizations of a college education. Through video diary discussions, classroom captures, and football practice footage, the kids and their families attempt to make a case [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Eleven Minutes (world premiere reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
I saw Eleven Minutes during its world premier at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the efforts of Season One Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll to get his debut collection to the Fashion Week scene at Bryant Park. McCarroll, of course, showed up to promote the movie and show his post feature [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Bad Biology (world premiere reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival
I saw Bad Biology during its premier at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival where its director, Frank Henenlotter, made a stop to pick up the PFF’s Phantasmagoria Award, an honor he said he was lucky to receive after sixteen years without making a film. It’s true the man who brought the world Basket Case 1,2, [...]
- LizFlix Reviews: Young@Heart (reviewed at the Philadelphia Film Festival)
I saw Young@Heart premier at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival, where its director Steven Walker and some of its senior stars had shown up to promote the movie. I had been skeptical of seeing this film about an elderly rock choir since I’d seen its trailer months and months before. I thought, perhaps, this was [...]
