We’re previously featured one-person movies. Examples include “Unknown,” “Welcome to the Club,” and “Lonely & Cold.” But Sanmegh Thokade’s “Lift” (the British term for “elevator”) raises the bar. This is the first solo movie we’ve seen in which the moviemaker plays two characters. The protagonist and the antagonist engage in rapid-fire dialogue. How he accomplished…
read more →Three young otters at first seem to be the stars of an RTÉ news feature “Perfect Match.” Certainly these creatures—related to weasels, badgers, mink, and wolverines—are handsome and playful. But the true protagonist of this wildlife story is Randal Plunkett, the twenty-first Lord Dunsany. Plunkett— a filmmaker and wildlife enthusiast—has converted the tennis court of…
read more →At its heart, science fiction isn’t about futuristic gadgets and aliens. Such things—however fascinating—are meant mainly to create settings for drama. Inventing a story about a man stuck on Mars is essentially the same as creating an island for Robinson Crusoe. In other words, at its heart memorable science fiction is about the human condition.…
read more →The metaphor of the melting pot is usually seen as something positive. It refers to people with various backgrounds being mixed together in order to create a strong, unified population whose members are more alike than different. But there is a hidden assumption in the process, namely that the transformed individuals will abandon their previous…
read more →In the mid-19th century, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace warned: “Future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.” Now considered as the co-founder of the theory of evolution, Wallace believed that the rise of agriculture (and civilization) inevitably…
read more →If the Wachowskis had chosen to present the Matrix as a music video, they might have come up with something like “Across the Fog.” But they didn’t, which left an opening for Danilo Scozzari’s “Across the Fog.” Submitted to the Moment Invitational Film Festival 2021 as a music video, this four-minute mobile movie could just…
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