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The Marthas Vineyard Times One film about endlessness, and another about growing old 1 of 2 Playing online at the M.V. Film Center are two films, “About Endlessness” and “Duty Free.” (The latter is also playing live at the Film Center.) “About Endlessness” is by Swedish director Roy Andersson. Don’t expect a conventional narrative from this remarkable film. “About Endlessness” consists of a series of vignettes, often divided by blackouts. Some are connected, some a...

Photo: DAVID DEVLIN/NETFLIX © 2021 It’s finally May. The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, and the full brunt of the Summer movie season is primed to descend upon us like a mighty avalanche of cinema. There are a ton of new films premiering exclusively in theaters this month, including this weekend’s Wrath of Man (which won’t be on demand), as the country continues to vaccinate and multiplexes reopen with varying safety standards. Still, there are plenty of great new movies premier...

What to watch: Catch up on ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ or start the new Star Wars series ‘The Bad Batch’ Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Wondering what to watch this week? Check out these film and TV recommendations. “About Endlessness” Ah, the merry month of May — perfect for Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s latest and perhaps final musings on what it means to live, suffer, endure. And it’s a comedy! Bone-dry, 76 minutes in length, it comprises meticulous vignettes...

Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman once described Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson as a “slapstick Ingmar Bergman,” which is as apt a designation as any. Both artists lay bare the plights of anguished souls in existential crisis, but Andersson’s view of the prosaic absurdity of the human condition is often tempered with humor that almost, but not quite, softens the blow. Black humor, perhaps, but I prefer playwright Eugène Ionesco’s term “tragic farce.” Andersson’s films – A...

Fort Worth Weekly The Paper Tigers (PG-13) This martial-arts comedy is about three middle-aged former kung fu prodigies (Alain Uy, Ron Yuan, and Mykel Shannon Jenkins) who are forced to revive their talents to solve the murder of their master. Also with Yuji Okumoto, Jae Suh Park, Roger Yuan, Peter Adrian Sudarso, Yoshi Sudarso, and Matthew Page. (Opens Friday in Dallas) Image courtesy of YouTube.com OPENING   Above Suspicion (R) This thriller based on the first American conviction...

Movies Are Back: About Endlessness Armond White About Endlessness ( Om det oandliga), finally opens in the U.S. after a long COVID-lockdown delay, and it gives every reason — touches every emotion we expect — when going to the movies. A Hollywood distributor would have insisted on selling a sexier title, but Andersson, the Swedish master of single-take theatricals, doesn’t deserve vulgarization. In 75 concise minutes (as long as any movie needs to be), About Endlessness i...

Reviews From The First Livable Planet Film Festival by Peter Wong on May 4, 2021 About Endlessness opens with the visual of a couple (Jan-Eje Ferling and Tatiana Delaunay) floating through gray, cloudy skies. Magnolia Pictures Milan Radisics’ short cinema essay “The Art Of Pollution” takes viewers on an aerial tour of lands colored in sha...

A shake-up at the California National Guard results in the firing of one general and the suspension of another.

MUST-WATCH: The return of Star Wars and the Handmaids Tale in the 680 NEWS Top 10! by James Mackin Last Updated May 2, 2021 at 9:57 pm EDT Clone Force 99 prepares for a mission in Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Courtesy of Disney+ One iconic show of the 2010s returns for a bombastic season, and a new chapter from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away are entering the 680 NEWS MUST-WATCH Top 10 this week! But will one of them take the top spot, or will a new action film starring 2020’s Sexies...

Print Fragments of existence build the absurdist tableaux of esteemed Swedish director Roy Andersson. Each stand-alone vignette in his features over the last two decades evolved from impressions that kindled an emotion within him. Their origin varies. Some reconceptualize scenarios he’s witnessed, while others take cues from fine art. Via their incisive slant, Andersson winks at the tragedy of mankind, the cruel and preposterous causes for our anguish, the fleeting moments of joy, the evil we...