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About Caroline Ely

Caroline Ely is a TV, movie, and art lover who worked for years in the television industry. Until a few years ago, she would have described herself as well traveled, and she hopes to live up to that description again very soon. She lives in New York and often heads to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Vita & Virginia

If it cannot quite convey the emotional and intellectual excitement of a forbidden love affair, Chanya Button’s film attractively showcases it.

By |August 21st, 2019|GLBT|0 Comments

Jay Myself

One more lament to a vanishing Old New York gets a welcome shot of astringency, thanks to photographer Jay Maisel’s gruffness and eccentricity.

By |August 1st, 2019|Documentary|0 Comments

I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians

A cockeyed, brilliant, and surreal comedy about Holocaust denial. Apparently this phenomenon is thriving in contemporary Romanian life and thought.

By |July 26th, 2019|Top Picks|0 Comments

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Ostensibly an elegy to the romance between troubadour/lothario Leonard Cohen and his 1960s girlfriend/muse Marianne Ihlen.

By |July 19th, 2019|Music|0 Comments

A Faithful Man

Well-observed moments and strong performances give the movie unexpected staying power.

By |July 18th, 2019|French|0 Comments

The Chambermaid

Lila Avilés’s slow-burn debut film thrums with anxiety beneath its sterile, stoic surface.

By |June 25th, 2019|Top Picks|0 Comments

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2019

Three very different films come to a stop with open endings in this annual festival of recent Italian film, including a richly photographed cavalcade of moral rot and a striking and atmospheric gem.

By |June 6th, 2019|Festivals|0 Comments

Return to Bollène/Fugue | Panorama Europe 2019

The eleventh annual Panorama Europe showcases European works that have won acclaim at festivals and represent the continent’s diversity of art-house cinema.

By |May 11th, 2019|Festivals|0 Comments

Rafiki

A story of forbidden teenage lesbian love across class lines in Kenya, it has drawn attention for an attempted ban by the Kenyan government.

By |April 19th, 2019|GLBT|0 Comments