Scheck on the Arts

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films premiering at Germany's Oldenburg International Film Festival:

Eva Hassmann stars in her directorial debut Willie and Me, playing a German woman who travels to America to see her idol Willie Nelson's farewell concert. To read my review, click here. 

Takayuki Hayashi's debut feature From Dawn Till Noon on the Sea revolves around three troubled souls and the aftermath of a kidnapping.To read my review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Eva Hassmann stars in Willie and Me, her directorial debut, playing a German woman who travels to America to see her idol Willie Nelson's farewell concert. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film receiving its world premiere at the Olderburg International Film Festival, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Jim Capobianco and Pierre-Luc Grandjon's playful animated feature The Inventor concerns the later years of Leonardo da Vinci. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film features voices performances by Stephen Fry, Daisy Ridley, and Marion Cotillard, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Annie Baker's new play Infinite Life concerns six patients suffering from serious ailments who are undergoing treatment at an alternative medicine facility. To read my New York Stage Review review of the play receiving its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Here are two more of my Hollywood Reporter reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival:

Michael Keaton directs and stars in Knox Goes Away, about a killer facing a devastating dementia diagnosis, also featuring Al Pacino, James Marsden and Marcia Gay Harden. To read my review, click here.

For Dear Jassi, his first film in eight years, Tarsem Sing Dhandwar, the director of The Cell and Mirror Mirror, tells the tragic, real-life story of two Indians from different socioeconomic backgrounds who fall in love. To read my review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck