18 November 2013

New to the Queue

It's getting serious as we enter the autumn of our year ...

The latest fly-on-the-wall documentary from Frederick Wiseman, the epic campus film "At Berkeley."

The latest screed from Alex Gibney about the Tour de France scandal, "The Armstrong Lie."

It's been a while since we checked in with the venerable John Sayles, so we'll give consideration to "Go For Sisters."

A snarky documentary about the Republicans in Iowa in 2012, "Caucus."

I'm going to give Alexander Payne yet another go with the dim, dank "Nebraska."

A quirky film about junkies behaving badly, the small indie "Junction."

I'm torn about two grand efforts: Alexander Sokurov, who created one of the greatest achievements of cinema with "Russian Ark," might bore me with the classic "Faust"; and I was not a fan of Paolo Sorrentino's "Il Divo," but his aesthetic might be just the ticket for the epic-seeming "The Great Beauty" (though the running time of 2:22 gives me serious pause).

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