Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

the lighthouse: oscar nominated brilliance

Darkness. Darkness visible. Light. Barely visible. THE LIGHTHOUSE illuminates. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Welcome to THE LIGHTHOUSE, a kerosene fueled bromance borne of solitude, secrets, suspicion and superstition.

On a far flung rock off of New England, …

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bruny: quantum of solastalgia

A quantum of solastalgia permeates BRUNY, a sprawling geopolitical epic with family saga and espionage notes.

Terrorism comes to Tasmania as BRUNY begins with a bang, the blowing up of a barely completed bridge between main island Tassie and its …

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the peanut butter falcon: instant classic

If only all movies could be as joyous and genuine and complete as THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON.

Zac, a young man with Down Syndrome and no family, is an inmate of a geriatric nursing home. He yearns to break free …

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peter bradshaw : ‘the films that made me’

In his essay, Two Years in the Dark, Andrew O’Hagan wrote that “….. movies and real life have secret things to do with one another and that only the hardhearted could fail to see it that way.”

There’s little that’s …

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the life of us: a millenials musical

For the life of me, THE LIFE OF US made me think: Home & Away, The Musical.

A soap opera in microcosm, THE LIFE OF US is a four-hander of a pair of overseas crossed lovers, a best friend and …

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the biggest little farm: worming your way out

Sobering and prescient, THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM opens with a country homestead under attack of bush fire.

It’s not Australia but California where threat of catastrophic conflagration is as constant as it is here. Guess it’s not called global warming …

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six: a tudor force

Rock shock mock Tudor, SIX is a spectacular and sublimely timely reclamation and recognition of the dethroned, discarded and a duo of decapitated women destined to known collectively as the six wives of Henry VIIII.

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, …

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shrek : the musical

There’s no getting ogre it, SHREK THE MUSICAL is a gleeful jolly green fun extravaganza.

Set somewhere ogre the fairy tale archipelago, this fractured fable is Aesop on the eye and ear, with lots of Grimm and bear it.

Based …

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the gentlemen: no embarrassment of ritchie’s

It’s no embarrassment of Ritchie’s, THE GENTLEMEN is a welcome return to form by Guy Ritchie, a lock, stock and several smoking barrels of eloquent, elegant, swellegant screenwriting, cinema craft, and star power delivery.

Matthew McConaughey plies his southern comfort …

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