Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) Movie Critics Review

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) Movie Critics Review
Runtime:     132 min
Production:     HBO Documentary Films
Genres:     Biography, Music, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director:       Brett Morgen
Stars:      Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, Krist Novoselic

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) Movie Review: Kurt Cobain, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Nirvana, remains an icon 20 years after his death. Here, we take a journey through Cobain's life and his career with Nirvana through the lens of his home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, and journals.

Cast

Courtney Love

Dave Grohl

Kurt Cobain

Krist Novoselic 

IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4229236

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Mike Hale | New York Times

An exhilarating, exhausting, two-hour-plus film, both an artful mosaic and a hammering barrage ...

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John Anderson | Wall Street Journal

Mr. Morgen is perhaps the leading revolutionary in American documentary filmmaking, a collagist/synthesist extraordinaire who has channeled Mr. Cobain's physical legacy ... into a work of art completely his own.

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Scott Tobias | The Dissolve

Morgen's made an impression of Cobain, which is a much more intuitive and vital enterprise.

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Joshua Rothkopf | Time Out

For a mere 27 years, Cobain's life was unusually well documented, often by himself, and the film feels as vivid as The Devil and Daniel Johnston in delivering an artist's tortured interiority.

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Sara Stewart | New York Post

As the credits roll, it's hard not to just root for the sensitive, progressive, fiercely creative Cobain and wish that he'd lived long enough to find a little peace of mind.

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Alistair Harkness | Scotsman

Though Cobain: Montage of Heck is unlikely to be the last word on the subject - the Nirvana legend is, ironically, far too lucrative now for that - it certainly deserves to be.

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Jonathan Romney | Observer [UK]

The argument for Cobain's brilliance never quite convinces until towards the end, with his MTV Unplugged performance, in which a whole new compelling register to his talent emerges - too late for the film, and alas, for the singer himself.

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Tara Brady | Irish Times

Montage of Heck has a wonderful handmade feel, not unlike Jonathan Caouette's wonderful 2003 auto-doc, Tarnation.

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Patrick Smith | Daily Telegraph

Morgen manages to stay clear of hagiography, instead compiling an exhilarating piece of film-making - one that's fully in keeping with Cobain's virtuosity.

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Geoffrey Macnab | Independent

The film emphasises Cobain's creativity as well as the work ethic that went alongside his well-chronicled drug use.

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Wendy Ide | Times [UK]

The annoying title notwithstanding, Cobain: Montage of Heck does a decent job of capturing the charisma and restless creativity of Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain without getting bogged down in hagiography.

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Desert Dancer (2015) Movie Critic Review

Desert Dancer (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     98 min
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, some drug material and violence
Production:     CrossDay Productions Ltd.
Genres:     Biography, Drama
Country:     UK
Language:     English 
Director:      Richard Raymond
Stars:        Nazanin Boniadi, Freida Pinto, Marama Corlett


Desert Dancer (2015) Critic Review: Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amidst his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing.

IMDB By 5.3 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403393

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 With Iran in the news, the timing of "Desert Dancer" couldn't be better. The genuine story of a young man who began an underground move troupe, regardless of moving being illegal in the Islamic republic, the film is additionally an amplified investigate how individuals live in Iran, and how they feel about it.

The human need for self-expression is at the heart of this film. What a strange thing, that as soon as you take away a people’s ability to express themselves, they suddenly have something to say. In the West, we can express ourselves all day long, but most of our art is trivial. But when people have to risk their lives to say something, all the force of their creativity lasers in on the essential.
Afshin Ghaffarian starts life as a dance natural, as if his mind and body were programmed for that destiny. As a child, he studies at an underground school, and when he goes to college in Tehran, he falls in with a group of like-minded students. According to “Desert Dancer,” there’s a public Iran, with morality-enforcing thugs harassing people into conformity. And then there is the private Iran of drinking, dancing and secret nightclubs.

For a hedonist with no higher ambition, the ability to blow off steam in a private club would be enough. But Afshin is an artist and, even more difficult, an artist whose art can’t really exist without the sounding board of an audience. He starts a clandestine dance company but very soon realizes that they will have nothing if they never get a chance to perform. On the other hand, if word gets out to the wrong people - and the wrong people are everywhere and have big ears * they could be imprisoned, tortured or killed.

In "Desert Dancer," we see the effect of things we underestimate, as when Afshin gets hold of an unblocked Internet server and turns upward different dance lovers on YouTube. YouTube, as a result, turns into his choreographer. The value of craftsmanship, what that correspondence crosswise over time and space implies in individuals' lives, is something we always remember while viewing "Desert Dancer." At one point, Afshin gets to be riveted by seeing high contrast dance footage of Rudolf Nureyev, and through Afshin, we encounter the same interest.

Freida Pinto co-stars as Elaheh, a gifted, troubled woman who joins Afshin’s company. Though the film is based on true events, one suspects that Elaheh is a creation of the screenplay. If so, screenwriter Jon Croker should be congratulated. Elaheh is the tortured soul of the country, the talented daughter of a ballerina whose career ended with the Islamic revolution. Pinto, whose roles have too often been antiseptic, is affecting as a woman whose passionate drive for life is matched by her impulse toward self-destruction.

Movies about people trying to start dance companies tend to be as formulaic as sports movies, but “Desert Dancer” escapes the usual drawbacks - corniness and bad dancing - by the urgency of the context. To watch it is to ask what you might do under similar circumstances. It’s to contemplate the tremendous fear at the core of government thugs everywhere, and it’s to wonder about Iran’s future.
In the end, it’s hard to know whether to see the Iran of “Desert Dancer” in optimistic or pessimistic terms. Young people, especially, want to be free, but the other side has all the power. Having YouTube on your side certainly helps, but an army and some tanks can come in handy, too.

At last, its difficult to know whether to see the Iran of "Desert Dancer" in idealistic or cynical terms. Youngsters, particularly, need to be free, yet the other side has all the force. Having YouTube on your side absolutely helps, however an armed force and a few tanks can prove to be useful, as well.


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Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank (2015) Movie Review

 
Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     87 min
Production:     Pack Creek Productions
Genres:     Biography, Drama, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English 
Director:      Sheila Canavan, Michael Chandler
Stars:        Missy Peregrym , Eric Balfour , Nicholas Campbell

Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank Movie Directed by Sheila Canavan, Michael Chandler. Under Production: Pack Creek Productions. In Cinema Mar 20, 2015 with Stars: Barney Frank, Spencer Bachus, Mike Barnicle - Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank Movie Review

IMDB By 4.7 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2452352

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Sean Burns | Movie Mezzanine
 There are worse ways to spend 90 minutes than in the company of Barney Frank.
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Seymour: An Introduction (2015) Movie Critic Review

Seymour: An Introduction (2015) Movie Critic Review
Rating:     Rated PG for some mild thematic elements
Production:     Under the Influence
Genres:     Biography, Music, Documentary
Country:     USA
Language:     English  
Director:      Ethan Hawke
Stars:        Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke




Seymour: An Introduction (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  Seymour: An Introduction Movie Directed by Ethan Hawke. Under Production: Under the Influence. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke

IMDB By 7.7 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2219650

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indieWIRE | Eric Kohn
 On the whole, by ceding control to his subject, Hawke makes a persuasive case for Bernstein's guru-like outlook on the value of finding personal gratification in art above all else.
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Rolling Stone | Peter Travers
 The twice Oscar-nominated actor appears onscreen only briefly. Hawke knows where the spotlight belongs. Believe me, the 81 minutes spent in Bernstein's funny, touching and vital presence is something you don't want to miss.
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Variety | Justin Chang
 This first documentary directed by Ethan Hawke happily sidesteps any vanity-project pitfalls, granting full expression to Bernstein's wise and witty commentary on a craft that he's spent decades honing - as well as the proper application of that craft when the demands of art are often outweighed by the pressures of commerce.
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New York Magazine | David Edelstein
 Buoyed by Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, and more, Seymour: An Introduction is lyrical without getting fancy, its director plainly rapt.
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Village Voice | Stephanie Zacharek
 The film Hawke has made - which borrows its title, though little else, from J.D. Salinger - works both as a celebration of Bernstein, whose spirit is at once gentle and boldly generous, and as a way of exploring creativity and the meaning it can have in our lives.
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The Dissolve | Keith Phipps
 Alternating interviews, observational passages, and conversations with past students, Hawke's low-key film never pushes too hard for effect and lets any drama emerge slowly.
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Slant Magazine | Carson Lund
 Ethan Hawke's concentration on Seymour Bernstein isn't a betrayal of his own ego massaging, but rather an attempt to have a genuine soul-bearing conversation.
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The A.V. Club | Mike D'Angelo
 The biggest problem with Seymour, though, is that Hawke can't quite find a structure or rhythm for the movie as a whole. It's only 81 minutes long, and never remotely boring, but the feeling that it's due to end at any moment kicks in around the midpoint and persists right up until it actually does end, like the documentary equivalent of "The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King."
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The Hollywood Reporter | Stephen Farber
 Hawke's film is very well crafted, tightly edited and elegantly photographed. The acute musical selections only add to our appreciation of Seymour's selfless devotion to his art.
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TheWrap | Inkoo Kang
 Hawke is probably too respectful a director and disciple to challenge anything that his subject says, or even query about the vaguest outlines of his personal life.... The title is truth in advertising; “Seymour” really is only an introduction.


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Digging Up the Marrow (2015) Movie Review

Digging Up the Marrow (2015) Movie Review
Production:     ArieScope Pictures
Genres:     Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Country:     USA
Language:     English  
Director:    Adam Green
Stars:    Adam Green , Alex Pardee , Dave Brockie , Don Coscarelli

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RogerEbert.com | Simon AbramsGreen, who plays a snotty version of himself, doesn't follow through on any of the ideas that make his film stand out. As a result, Digging Up the Marrow just uselessly lies there, like a cat during a heat wave.
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Village Voice | Nick SchagerAfter poking fun at both Green's lack of originality and the hackneyed nature of found-footage shockers, Digging Up the Marrow merely resorts to climactic shaky-cam footage of people running through the pitch-black woods -- thereby becoming the very dull, clichéd thing it mocks.
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The Hollywood Reporter | Frank ScheckA playfully self-reflexive exercise whose endless in-jokes will best be appreciated by only the most ardent genre aficionados.
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The Dissolve | Mike D'AngeloDigging Up The Marrow is more of an affectionate comedy than a horror movie, despite a third act that features some tense moments and hostile critters.
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The A.V. Club | Ignatiy VishnevetskyAdam Green’s hybrid mockumentary Digging Up The Marrow deserves credit for trying to re-think the done-to-death found-footage horror formula, even if its self-reflexive angle amounts to little more than a whole lot of unrealized potential.
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