Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia

Writer and Critic at Freelance

California girl. Movie geek. Sister amid Brotherly Love . Author, A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnes Varda (Norton).

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Ruth Perlmutter, professor, film scholar, and cofounder of the Jewish Film Festival, has died at 96

1 month ago | inquirer.com | Carrie Rickey

Ruth Perlmutter, 96, professor, film scholar, cofounder of the Jewish Film Festival, and for 50 years the spark plug of local movie culture, died Saturday, March 15, at Symphony Square retirement community in Bala Cynwyd of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. With her fire-red hair, dancer’s posture, model’s cheekbones, artisanal wardrobe, and ethnic jewelry, Mrs. Perlmutter cut a striking figure. She taught film history at Temple University and other local colleges.
Can we separate Woody Allen the artist from the man born Allan Stewart Konigsberg

2 months ago | forward.com | Patrick McGilligan |Carrie Rickey

A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham: Woody AllenBy Patrick McGilliganHarper Books, 736 pages, $50Come December, God willing, Woody Allen will celebrate his 90th birthday with his wife, Soon-Yi, and their two adult daughters. As a gag writer, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and filmmaker, over 75 years the man born Allan Stewart Konigsberg has entertained, tickled, edified, and, more recently, divided, America.
Michael Clayton Reviews

Nov 30, 2024 | metacritic.com | Tony Gilroy |Steve Davis |Carrie Rickey

Many people have notions of what a 'fixer' may actually do, some see rubber gloves and cleaning up crime scenes, others may see smooth talking, good looking and suited up individuals who confidently go about their job as a sought after individual.
'A Complicated Passion' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Shannon Carlin |Carrie Rickey

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Shannon CarlinNovember 13, 2024 8:15 AM ESTWith A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda, the first major biography of Agnès Varda, film critic Carrie Rickey offers a fascinating deep dive into the illustrious life and career of the late French filmmaker.
2 film critics give us their Philadelphia Film Festival recommendations

Oct 14, 2024 | hastingstribune.com | Carrie Rickey |Stephen Silver

By Carrie Rickey and Stephen Silver - The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) PHILADELPHIA - This year's Philadelphia Film Festival brings to the city a program of 98 films. To help us plan our time at the festival, we asked two film critics for some recommendations. Here's what former Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey and frequent Inquirer writer Stephen Silver are most excited to see in this year's (in Rickey's words) "exceptionally rich" festival. Copyright 2024 Tribune Content Agency.
2 film critics give us their Philadelphia Film Festival recommendations

Oct 14, 2024 | miamiherald.com | Carrie Rickey |Stephen Silver

PHILADELPHIA - This year's Philadelphia Film Festival brings to the city a program of 98 films. To help us plan our time at the festival, we asked two film critics for some recommendations. Here's what former Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey and frequent Inquirer writer Stephen Silver are most excited to see in this year's (in Rickey's words) "exceptionally rich" festival. ‘Anora'Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m. & Oct.
2 film critics give us their Philadelphia Film Festival recommendations

Oct 13, 2024 | swoknews.com | Carrie Rickey |Stephen Silver

PHILADELPHIA — This year’s Philadelphia Film Festival brings to the city a program of 98 films. To help us plan our time at the festival, we asked two film critics for some recommendations. Here’s what former Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey and frequent Inquirer writer Stephen Silver are most excited to see in this year’s (in Rickey’s words) “exceptionally rich” festival. ‘Anora’kAm~4E] `g[ eib_ A]>] U2>Aj ~4E] `h[ ?@@?[ u:=> $@4:6EJ r6?E6Ck^AmkAms:C64E@C $62?
2 film critics give us their Philadelphia Film Festival recommendations

Oct 13, 2024 | thederrick.com | Carrie Rickey |Stephen Silver
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

Sep 30, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Carrie Rickey

When Agnès Varda was introduced as ‘Director. Screenwriter. Legend’ at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, she promptly objected: ‘I’m not a religion. I’m still alive.’ It was a futile protest. Varda had become the object of widespread veneration. You could buy any number of T-shirts emblazoned with her likeness, whether in the form of a photograph or a cartoon depicting a Mrs Pepperpot-type sporting a silver-and-aubergine pudding-bowl coiffure and an expression of bemused curiosity.
Mother: Look, Ma, No Therapist!

Aug 28, 2024 | criterion.com | Carrie Rickey |Ari Aster

As the son who remembers every incident of maternal disapproval he has experienced and is still stung by all of them, Brooks’s John is an impatient man-child just on the brink of adulthood. To reach his twin goals of growing up and getting to the root of his family-tree issues, he finds that patience, calm, and forgiveness are necessary. This makes the character less defensive than the ones played by Brooks in his prior films.