Paul Risker
Writer at Freelance
Contributing Editor at PopMatters
Film critic & philosophical outsider | Interview & Festival Editor for @MeSjournal | Words on film: @PopMatters @LWLies @FrightFest @FluxMagazine @AestheticaMag
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3 days ago |
eyeforfilm.co.uk | Paul Risker
Ash Avildsen's Queen Of The Ring, based on Jeff Leen's 2009 biography, Queen Of The Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, And The Making Of An American Legend, is based on the real-life story of pioneering female wrestler, Mildred Burke, played by Emily Bett Rickards. Unfortunately for ambitious single-mother Mildred Burke, women's wrestling is illegal across the United States.
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6 days ago |
eyeforfilm.co.uk | Paul Risker
Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for the recording of the three-part documentary "Speer und Er" by director Heinrich Breloer Photo: Bavaria Media Director Andres Veiel turns his attention to the notorious artist, filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. With access to her estate, his documentary, Riefenstahl, uses previously unseen photographs, written documents, audio recordings as well as unpublished handwritten notes and excerpts for her biography.
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1 week ago |
dmovies.org | Paul Risker
Cinema is as much about wanting the audience to look as to look away. Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature debut, The Ugly Stepsister, a body horror version of the Cinderella story, tests the audience’s tolerance for visceral beautification treatments and other forms of physical horror. And there are no shortage of moments where it appears Blichfeldt is daring her audience to try and not look away.
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2 weeks ago |
eyeforfilm.co.uk | Paul Risker
Director Justin Anderson's feature directorial début, Swimming Home, is an adaptation of Deborah Levy's novel of the same name. It revolves around Joe (Christopher Abbott), a celebrated poet who is struggling to write, and his partner Isabel (Mackenzie Davis), a war correspondent, who tolerates Joe's frequent affairs.
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3 weeks ago |
eyeforfilm.co.uk | Paul Risker
Killer Of Sheep Photo: courtesy of Film Forum American director Charles Burnett's 1977 student film and indie classic, Killer Of Sheep, captures a snapshot of everyday life in the Black community. The loosely structured story of vignettes, with a neorealist and semi-documentary sensibility, revolves around Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), who works at a slaughterhouse. The bloody work is eating away at his soul, and his exhaustion leaves his connection with his wife and children strained.
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"...THERE IS A FUTURE STILL TO FIGHT FOR, BUT THERE IS A HELL OF A LOSS TO MOURN" - Ivan Sen, Read his exclusive interview for @goldstonefilm with @PopMatters: https://t.co/6CO0p91pzx https://t.co/OOaAJkmaX9
Sympathy over God-like judgement - how necessary it is for an author of a story to seperate creating & listening to the story & characters from judgement. Whilst Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street didn't necessarily sympathise, the lack of judgement drew criticism. And wrongly so!
Max Winkler discusses the morally dubious world of FLOWER, wherein audiences can explore darker shades of themselves -- and darker aspects of their sympathy. https://t.co/9g9ts0UL2D https://t.co/xtdL6bk2j9
