Film Review: Amy
Riding Fame’s Inherent Rollercoaster The entirety of Amy, Asif Kapadia’s riveting and heartbreaking documentary about Amy Winehouse, is made of archived footage — home videos, tabloid photos, concert tape, recording […]
Riding Fame’s Inherent Rollercoaster The entirety of Amy, Asif Kapadia’s riveting and heartbreaking documentary about Amy Winehouse, is made of archived footage — home videos, tabloid photos, concert tape, recording […]
“You can walk out of hell and into the light. You can wake up to your higher self, and when you do, the world is suddenly full of possibility, of […]
The long flow of the Oscars last night had a very similar feel to the narrative arc of Enlightened’s seventh episode and Amy’s mental state. It all starts out so […]
Love came to my door With a sleeping roll And a madman’s soul He thought for sure I’d seen him Dancing up a river in the dark Looking for a […]
I’ve always enjoyed the title card of “Enlightened,” so non-existent, pale, light, dissolving into thin white air. You sometimes forget that it’s even considered a weekly opening sequence- no music […]
I smiled along with Tyler’s big grin last episode even though what he did to Omar was difficult to endure. There was just something so gratifying watching him with excitement […]
If there’s one thing Mike White captures beautifully in “Enlightened,” it’s the slow and subtle progressions (or digressions) of a character through both the arc of a season, and, specifically […]
Amy Jellicoe is enraging, insightful, awkward and caring. She’s narcissistic but empathetic, naïve but aspirational. The first year of Enlightened taught us all of this and much more, and similar […]