Richard Cotter

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

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

a little piece of ash

Cutting through the clumsiness of condolences and the crippling guilt that courses through grieving, A LITTLE PIECE OF ASH is a little piece of theatre with a big heart and a whole heap of soul.

Chain smoking Jedda finds it …

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burning: you’re kindling

Where’s there’s smoke there’s fire and there’s plenty of smoke and a slow burn of mysterious ambiguity in BURNING, that threatens to ignite but never quite reaches kindling point.

Director Lee Chang Dong collaborates with screen writer Oh Jung-Mi to …

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the moro spanish film festival: ola & ole

As part of its Spotlight on Female Directors, the Moro Spanish Film Festival will feature 11 films directed by women. From established directors such as Icíar Bollaín and Gracia Querejeta to fresh new voices including Lila Avilés, the spotlight presents …

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the hole in the ground: one night stand

Mirror, mirror on the wall, mirror mirror in the hall, through the looking glass, down the rabbit hole. Or in this case a sink hole, an abyss, a subterranean Midwich Cuckoo’s nest.

THE HOLE IN THE GROUND begins impressively with …

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woman at war: wow!

There’s a WOW! to WOMAN AT WAR that is so much more real than any wow factor inherent in or associated with Wonder Woman or Captain Marvel.

And that’s because WOMAN AT WAR is so much more real.

WOMAN AT …

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leopardskin: a spotty comedy

Pocket rocket pick pocket, Val, is enamoured of Luka, filthy lucre procurer and commitment-phobe bamboozler who left Senator Olive Darling in the lurch.

Darling and the Police Sergeant, long vexed by the elusive grifter, contrive a sting that includes an …

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us: ununited states

Jordan Peele’s follow up film to Get Out, US, cements and solidifies his place as the crown prince and once and future king of the horror genre, although his redefinition of that hackneyed pigeon hole frees him from the stereotype.…

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the bed party: extended season

Truth in advertising, the set of THE BED PARTY is a bloody big bed, big enough for a quintet of quilt comrades to congregate for a party of polemics and queer politic.

It’s the boudoir of Jasmine and Finn, but …

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