Scheck on the Arts

Here are two of my Hollywood Reporter reviews of films recently featured at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real film festival:

Sarah France's documentary Birds of a Feather features Beirut citizens commenting about their lives while sitting in the back of a vehicle with transparent walls traversing the city streets. To  read my review, click here.

Argentine novelist/filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky examines his family history in the cinematic essay Letter to a Father. To read my review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Garrett Bradley's debut feature Below Dreams concerns the lives to three struggling twentysomethings in New Orlean. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A young man struggles to cope with his father's devastating mental illness in Flights of Fancy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the German film recently featured in the KINO! festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

David Hyde Pierce directs a talented ensmemble of  such comic pros as Tyne Daly, Harriet Harris and Edward Hibbert in the new Broadway musical comedy It Shoulda Been You. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Iowa, Jenny Schwartz's new absurdist play with music by Todd Almond, is an off-Broadway dud. To read my New York Post review of this Playwrights Horizons production, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

A young man hires a hit man to kill his sister's abusive husband in in Jack Bryan's neo-noir film The Living. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Director Paul Bojack's existential comedy/drama Reset concerns a man who returns to his hometown without informing his friends or family. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Lesley Manville heads the cast of Richard Eyre's Olivier Award-winning Almedia Theatre revival of Ibsen's classic Ghosts, being presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A new arrival in suburbia attempts to investigate an apparent conspiracy in Arthur Luhn's horror thriller The House Across the Street. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck