“Vive L’Amour” – Long live irony [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Vive L’Amour,” the 1994 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner directed by Tsai Ming-liang, is a puzzle within a puzzle. Clearly inspired by the early French New Wave films of Michelangelo Antonioni, it is a film about everything and nothing at all. Darkly funny and deadly serious, the seemingly disparate lives of three people intertwine […]
“Life & Beth” – Yes and No [TELEVISION REVIEW]
“Life & Beth,” a series starring, created, and primarily written by Amy Schumer, who also directed a few of the episodes, is a well-intentioned effort to look at the life choices of an older millennial. Told in ten episodes, there is, perhaps, enough material for eight. Beth, about to turn 40, has a seemingly successful […]