Netflix Pick: The Red Chapel
One in a very occasional series on some of the best of Netflix’s instant streaming program. The Red Chapel (Mads Brugger, 2009) What makes for a powerful documentary? Does the filmmaker tell a compelling story? Does it have to be entertaining? Should there be a message or a point of view? Should the director communicate some meaning? The Red Chapel is all of these things and more, and I highly recommend you add it to your Netflix cue. Mads Brugger, a Danish television personality and…
Quickie Review: Page One
I am one of those people who are inconsolably depressed over the death of print journalism. Growing up reading The New York Times and The Washington Post, I thought it was my destiny I would one day write for one of these noble institutions. OK, maybe not write—but I took it for granted I would at least read them. The internet happened in the intervening decade or two and shocked everyone, including, as it turns out, The Times itself. The new documentary Page One: Inside…
Pico Pick: Four Seasons Lodge
OK, folks, a quick post today about a documentary I think everyone should see: Four Seasons Lodge. Obviously, unlike most of the movies I review, there is no wide release. There is one final screening tonight at the Beverly Hills Music Hall and I think that is it. Nevertheless, if you ever can track down this film, it is a pleasure to watch. The director, Andrew Jacobs follows a group of Holocaust survivors who share a co-op out in the Catskills each summer. Here for…
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