Scheck on the Arts

Today's posting features two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films recently shown at the New York Film Festival:

Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time features footage from hundreds of silent films discovered in a Yukon Territory landfill. To read my review, click here.

Gaston Solnicki's debut narrative feature Kekszakallu depicts the day-to-day lives of several young Argentine women. To read my review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Trump Tower Live, the Trump campaign's new live talk show presented nightly on Facebook, is lamer than the lamest lamestream media. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook on the show, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Romantic sparks fly between two Vietnamese refugees in Qui Nguyen's outlandish comic play Vietgone, inspired by his own parents' experiences. to read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Cristin Milioti plays a 30-year-old woman who rejects her boyfriend's marriage proposal in the romantic comedy It Had to Be You. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

David Hyde Pierce plays a lonely man who seeks answers via astrology in A Life, Adam Bock's new play, directed by Anne Kaufman. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Several young Catholic missionaries prepare for their upcoming Middle East assignment in The Harvest, a new drama by Samuel D. Hunter. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the play being presented at Lincoln Center, click here.

Journalist Jorge Ramos investigates the growing pervasiveness of hateful rhetoric and violence in America in the documentary Hate Rising. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Mikhail Baryshnikov plays the legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in Letters to a Man, an experimental dance-theater piece directed by Robert Wilson. To read my Hollywod Reporter review, click here.

A young drifter finds his larcenous tendencies quelled by a new friendship with a young woman and her grandfather in The River Thief, marking N.D. Wilson's directorial debut. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck