Claire Denis’ most recent film, Un Beau Soleil Interieur (A Beautiful Sun Within) is a tale of love lost, won, blurred, and then refined, only to rinse and repeat. The misadventures of Isabelle, a struggling Parisian artist, are depicted in a manner that elegantly captures the spirit of human awkwardness, although at times being a…
On April 30th, the Cultural Arts Center of the Ketcham Inn Foundation hosted its third annual Student Art Showcase. Located across from the historic inn itself, the center served as a gallery within which student artists from Center Moriches High School displayed their work. The Ketcham Inn along Montauk Highway in Center Moriches has stood…
In Zhang Yimou’s recent Chinese monster epic, William Garin (Matt Damon) and Pero Tovar (Pedro Pascal), two European mercenaries seeking black powder, are taken captive by the Nameless Order, guardians of China’s Great Wall. The Commander of the Crane Troop, Lin Mae (Jing Tian), holds them prisoner as a cyclical battle between the Order and a force of…
Too often, films are hasty to wrap up neat and nice with a happy ending. While this may satiate audiences, it does very little to replicate a reality in which people don’t always get what they want, life takes unexpected and tragic turns, and some wounds just don’t heal. Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea does little…