For Film Comment, Marc Walkow surveys the career of director Tomu Uchida, currently the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Like many commercial Japanese directors of his era, Uchida has long been underappreciated in the West, but “the uniformly high quality of his works and his ability to succeed in a variety of genres mark him as a filmmaker very ripe for (re)consideration by critics.”
In a new interview with the Village Voice’s Bilge Ebiri, composer Hanan Townshend discusses his collaborations with Terrence Malick: “Terry sometimes says he’s the carpenter and I’m providing him with the wood and the nails.”
As part of Behind the Screens, a series of interviews with film programmers, the Observer speaks with the Japan Society’s Aiko Masubuchi on her mini-retrospective Pop! Goes Cinema: Kadokawa Film & 1980s Japan.
“It’s like Chekhov—a black comedy, a human comedy,” says Isabelle Huppert about her controversial new film Elle.
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker. (imdb)
A cute comedy that kind of understands it's own characters and still likes them. Avoids a lot of the trappings of this kind of comedy via this and you get a growth to accompany some actually funny moments.
If you see the trailer and hope for sally field being a quirky funny old lady you get what you paid (or invested your time) for. It works as a comedy, i laughed my ass off and i don't have a sense of humor. Heartfelt moments came as genuine, the story flowed in a realistic enough way. Daly plays the cranky but loyal steadfast best friend well. It ends ambiguosly as if it had something deep to say when it doesnt so that was just dumb but whatever
Entertainment 4/4: endearing with plenty of LOL moments. Spirit: 1.5/3 People finding growth through the impulses of Life. Sustainability: 1/3 Reconsidering ageism.
"I found a pair of her jeans and I got so depressed I tried them on. They fit me perfectly. I'm wearing them now."
Does the best it can with a premise that was doomed from inception to fail. Paints an utterly vain and unlikeable picture of contemporary New York millennials and contains one of the worst-developed supporting characters I have ever seen. Cringe inducing, and deliberately so, from start to end.
The film didn't need the fantasy scenes of Doris macking on a shirtless John. All it really needs is Field. And when she's allowed to hold the screen without gimmicks and detours into curdled whimsy, Hello, My Name is Doris is a movie well met.
I ended up enjoying this not so typical coming of age movie. Field was charming and Greenfield was believable. It worked. I wasn't too fond of the open ending. *Good
Sally Field gives false hope to weird old ladies. Not highbrow cinema, but delightfully in it's predictable way.
Sally Fields was wonderful in this quirky little movie about an older woman with designs on a younger man. She is always a pleasure to watch. Max Greenfield was somewhat satisfying. It was entertaining to see her dancing to industrial music & becoming the center of attention. Some of the daydream segments were quite amusing. Thanks to Sally this is elevated to something fun & worth watching. By the end we are rooting for her to succeed, but we get another open ended non-ending.
Field delivers a great comedic performance in a decent film populated by television actors. A lot of cringeworthy moments, but a lot of funny ones too. The film almost feels like a comment on modern RomComs with the daydreaming fantasies, though overall fails to be completely memorable.
In the end, it's just a standard rom-com really. There was one scene that had me really feeling for the character, but I left the theatre thinking there must be 100 of these made every year. Its biggest sin for me was that the comedy bits overall fell flat. Sally Field did as much as one could, but the script didn't really give anyone much to do.
Sally FIeld is spectacular as Doris. Unfortunately, the film around her is not. Field allows the film to flourish, especially when it struggles against the typical indie dramedy trappings.
Those sorts of questions push this idiosyncratic indie pic beyond the standard-issue romcom boundaries into something deeper and more meaningful. Inspiring, even, when you look at it with your head cocked a bit. It's just too bad Hello, My Name Is Doris didn't say good-bye to more of the genre's other standard trappings--the profanity and sexual stuff. (pluggedin.com)
Doris' willingness to risk embarrassment in an attempt to try to better her life is the kind of trait that's not only admirable but hard not to like. She'd be the kind of underdog that's incredibly easy to root for & only laugh at, but the left turn the film takes midway through gives her a dimension you don't see coming & makes her journey far more sympathetic. It's unfortunate that the film feels the need to end things as neatly as it does - it works, but still feels like something's missing.
Viewed March 11, 2016. Maybe not as immediately subversive or hilarious as one would expect from Michael Showalter, but it's refreshingly realistic in ways that this genre rarely allows. Sally Field and Max Greenfield are both remarkable, and the loaded supporting cast are responsible for most of the film's biggest laughs (The "Jennifer?" scene, especially).
This is an utterly predictable and forgettable indie comedy. Field is always a fine actress and the only quality of interest in this whole boring mess where I didn't laugh once.
Because of very gentle and healthy climate, the Croatian coast is very suitable for living and for holidays. Its narrow coastal area with islands has Mediterranean climate (gentle and rainy winters, and warm, dry and sunny summers).
In January, north from ibenik the average temperature is between 8 10 C, while south from ibenik it is even warmer. In July, the average air temperature on the Croatian coast is between 26,8  30,9 C.
Small daily temperature oscillations and high number of sunny days (up to 2500 sun hours per year) have positive effect on human organism. The highest sun is in the middle part of the coast (about 2700 hours) where the sunniest island is Hvar with 2715 hours of sun.In the coastal area, the most of the rain falls in October and November in the north, and in November and December in the south; while the driest months are July and August.
The total amount of precipitation would be enough if the soil base wouldn't be so porous (lime  stone and dolomitic karst) and if the distribution of precipitation wouldn't be so inconvenient. Snow is rare phenomenon, and even if it falls, it holds just for a day or two.The most usual winds are bura, jugo and maestral.
Bura is specific coastal north-eastern wind; it is more frequent in winter than in summer and blows in gusts, sometimes even faster than 120 kilometers per hour. It raises waves to 2,5 meters high and brings mostly clear weather.
Jugo is warm and humid south-eastern wind that blows at constant speed, raising relatively high wavers. The people are especially fond of maestral, daily landward breeze that blows from the sea to the coast in the warmer part of the year and makes summer heats easier to endure.
Gentle winters, and dry and hot summers caused growth of the exuberant Mediterranean evergreen vegetation on the coast: slender cypresses, aromatic laurels, blooming, oleanders, graceful tamarisks, strange aloes and flowering agaves, magnificent mimosas veiled with sunny-yellow flowers that announce spring, mellow oranges, tangerines and lemons, almonds and fragrant pines; and the symbols of the coast  graceful olive tree and wondrous fig-tree.However, the most significant vegetation type on the coast is modest macchia
(dense evergreen underbrush ) with its evergreen ilex and green juniper-tree, whose beauty is complemented with fragrance of sage, heather, rosemary and lavender.