“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” as a documentary is, in short, a bit too much of a good thing. Toward the film’s end, Cohen suggests with a smile that maybe it’s time people stop singing the song for a while. Then the journey starts…
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The late great George Wein, the creator of the Newport Jazz Festival in the 1960s, felt that New Orleans had to have a music festival of its own. New Orleans had something no other city in the world could claim. It had the birthright of jazz. In the era of Jim Crow, it couldn’t happen as, at the time, whites and blacks couldn’t be on the same stage together. Wein told his wife Joyce that he hoped time would eventually turn in his favor.
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Something I didn’t know going in was that “Compartment No. 6” is based on Rosa Liksom’s 2011 novel. The film has the same name as the book, though it was initially titled “Hytti nro 6.”
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With “Jockey,” Clint Bentley does a great job in the double duty task of directing and writing. This is an actual test as his past is in shorts. “Jockey” is his first feature film.
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Pay close attention while viewing because there’s a lot more going on in “Parallel Mothers” than meets the eye. The story pulls you in right away, and you’re following the yarn to its most likely destination, yet as it unspools, it gets deeper and deeper.
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“Julia” is a wonderful documentary. Born in 1912 in Pasadena, California, Julia Child didn’t have a rough childhood, but she struggled later in life and, remarkably, this film shows us all of her ups and downs.
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It’s really nice when something comes along and totally catches you off guard as “Nine Days” does and will. It was truly fascinating, with an absolutely brilliant cast. Winston Duke is incredible.
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Bringing peace to the Middle East is something sought after by every United States President and Secretary of State who takes office.
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