Yimou Zhang, the great Fifth Generation Chinese auteur and director of “Raise the Red Lantern” (1991), “Hero” (2002), “House of Flying Daggers” (2004), “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop” (2009) and the Matt Damon-starring (also with Pedro Pascal) “The Great Wall” (2016), sets his sights on the Song Dynasty and a patriotic poem attributed to the real-life Chinese hero General Yue Fei. At AMC Boston Common and suburban theaters Grade: B Her new film, WOMEN TALKING, comes out later this month. I recommend reading the afore-linked profile before or after the screening for additional context on her process and her incredible life story. A former Disney child star, and now a director primarily working in narrative features, Polley is a dogged and qualified detective of acting and storytelling. The film narrativizes, dramatizes, twists, and questions the truth, resulting in an ouroboros of a story. Through interviews with family and friends, home video clips, fictionalized recreations, and other forms of subjectivity, Polley investigates the origin of a family joke turned true: that she is not her father’s daughter, but is in fact the product of an affair of her now-gone mother’s. I read the recent New Yorker profile on Sarah Polley and was reminded to watch her 2012 documentary STORIES WE TELL, which had been recommended to me years ago by my dear friend Anna. WATCH IF YOU LIKE: hearts of gold, the Wild West, fur coats, daguerrotypes Did I mention Leonard Cohen did the music? Immerse yourself in winter and get warmed by Vilmos Zsigmond’s glowing, tintype cinematography. Set against a snowy, mountainous backdrop, the film is a perfect winter fable, packed with Altman signatures like overlapping dialogue, a memorable ensemble cast, and Shelley Duvall.
Miller, what could go wrong? Well, quite a bit, if some crafty oil barons decide they want your land. The men in town love the business, the women seem happy and cared for, McCabe is happy just to be near beautiful Mrs. New to the town of Presbyterian Church, the pair sets about to make their coin by joining forces and building the best brothel in town. Warren Beatty and Julie Christie star as the titular hustler and madame. MILLER, the 1971 Western from Robert Altman. NOW WE’RE TALKIN’!!! On a dreary evening of a bad week, we needed a Great Long Movie and settled on MCCABE AND MRS.
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