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Alexander Olch’s documentary “The Windmill Movie” is a difficult film to like, and an impossible film to love. Like its subject, documentarian Richard P. Rogers, it dissembles and remains at a distance from its audience. This lack of lovability isn’t surprising. The movie began as a documentary made by Rogers to chronicle his own life. […]

Alexander Olch’s documentary “The Windmill Movie” is a difficult film to like, and an impossible film to love. Like its subject, documentarian Richard P. Rogers, it dissembles and remains at a distance from its audience. This lack of lovability isn’t surprising. The movie began as a documentary made by Rogers to chronicle his own life. […]

Welcome to the world of haute couture, where grown men argue passionately about whether an overpriced dress looks more beautiful with 20 strips of sequin-laden material or with 18. Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, known to followers of fashion as just Valentino, opts for the lesser number, but becomes agitated when an associate prefers the greater. […]

Welcome to the world of haute couture, where grown men argue passionately about whether an overpriced dress looks more beautiful with 20 strips of sequin-laden material or with 18. Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, known to followers of fashion as just Valentino, opts for the lesser number, but becomes agitated when an associate prefers the greater. […]

The Solo of “Goodbye Solo” is a cab driver (Souleymane Sy Savane) in Winston-Salem, N.C. Originally from Senegal, he has family back in the old country to which he sends as much of his paycheck as he can afford. In the grand tradition of cabbies, he’s a chatty guy who can talk about almost anything. […]

The Solo of “Goodbye Solo” is a cab driver (Souleymane Sy Savane) in Winston-Salem, N.C. Originally from Senegal, he has family back in the old country to which he sends as much of his paycheck as he can afford. In the grand tradition of cabbies, he’s a chatty guy who can talk about almost anything. […]

There’s a new deputy in Guthrie ” the simple sort of Stetson-wearing, small-town sheriff who keeps easy company and enjoys a cup of coffee and a slice or two of pie. Lou Ford is easygoing and understated. Unfortunately, he’s also underestimated by those who mistake his slowness for weakness. RECIPE FOR MURDER A ROLE FOR […]

At first blush, “Everlasting Moments” might sound like a litany of art-house film clichés. Set in Sweden in the early 20th century, its saga of a quiet, strong-willed woman and her lout of a husband is pretentious enough to starch a collar, but the film transcends the sum of its well-worn plot. The great Swedish […]

 “The Cake Eaters” is the story of two families whose present is bracketed and, in some ways confined, by a shared past. Beagle (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) lives a solitary life with his recently widowed father, Easy (Bruce Dern, “The Astronaut Farmer”). Beagle tries to take care of Easy, but the pair lives […]

One of the basic tenets of armed rebellion holds that guerillas will ultimately prevail when patient and prepared for extended conflict and drawn-out battle. Similarly, Steven Soderbergh’s (“Ocean’s Thirteen”) take on revolutionary icon Che Guevara is no quick victory, instead a protracted film entanglement that machetes through the jungle only to celebrate scattered victories. Collectively […]