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Philadelphia Film Critics Circle 2019 Winners
Most major cities have a Film Association which lends weight to the movies out during Awards Season. Philly didn't have one up until 3 years ago when Critics Rich Heimlich and Stephen Silver decided it was time for Philadelphia (a movie town) to weigh in, establishing the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC).
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Little Women
I’ve enjoyed the Susan Sarandon/Winona Ryder version a number of times in the last 25 years, so I wasn’t too keen on a remake. But I have to admit, I enjoyed the fact that Greta Gerwig‘s version is not linear, we start with the girls in the second half of the novel, married and/or making their way in the world. The first half of the book is told in flashbacks. I think the framing works. Gerwig also finds subtle and not so subtle ways to insert a bit of a #Meetoo era feminism into the telling of this beloved classic. The casting is good. I’m not as in love with Florence…
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HONEY BOY
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor “It is strange to fetishize your pain and make a product out of it… you feel guilty about that. It felt very selfish. This whole thing felt very selfish. I never went into this thinking, ‘Oh, I am going to fucking help people.’ That wasn’t my goal. I was falling apart.” – Shia LaBeouf Q&A after the Honey Boy Sundance premiere 2019. I’ve seen a number of self-indulgent, self-serving films from “auteurs” but “Honey Boy” is NOT that at all, instead, it’s entertaining, moving, mesmerizing, heartbreaking and funny. LaBeouf may have needed to write this story, his story as a therapeutic exercise for PTSD, but…
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Everyone Loves HAIR LOVE Animated Short
Behind the scenes of Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison‘s heartstrings pulling animated short about a little girl who needs her dad to help her tame her hair, while the mom’s in the hospital.
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PTC RECAP: SEE & BE SCENE:
Tinsel & Tine #PhillyCalendar #MiniRECAP Philadelphia Theatre Company invited me to their annual Sneak Peek at what they’re looking at for next year 2020/2021 46th Season! They call it SEE & BE SCENE where some of the best Philly actors come to perform a scene from 8 Plays up for consideration. Then the audience gets to vote on their favorites. Out of the eight, here’s the four I voted for: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN By Kimberly Belflower “The line between witch and heroine blurs in this post-#MeToo examination of power, literature, and sex education” THE FIRST DEEP BREATHby Philly native playwright Lee Edward Colston II(Set in West Philadelphia) –…
