By Gregory Crofton You know how the price of concert tickets keep going up? There’s a reason for that and it’s called Big Music, you know like Big Oil. These companies are so large, and have gobbled up so many…
‘Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling’ is Worth a Long Look, Then a Few More
By Gregory Crofton This film about little-known modern artist Robert Irwin is filled with his philosophical truths and beautiful works of art. It is a wonderful, delicately assembled doc, which took director Jennifer Lane eight years to make. Irwin is…
Tanya Tucker Opens the Nashville Film Festival with a Visit and a Documentary at the Belcourt Theatre
By Gregory Crofton If Tanya Tucker doesn’t get a party started right, I’m not sure what will. The rowdy, hard-drinking 63-year-old country superstar has helped lead the way for women in the music business since she was thrown into it…
Stills of ‘Men in Love’ Tell 100 Stories
By Gregory Crofton They found the first photo while browsing in a small antique mall after church. Hugh and Neal thought they’d never come across another like it — two men embracing in a backyard, revealing their love only to…
Actor Sterling Hayden Gets Truthful on his Barge the ‘Pharos of Chaos’
By Gregory Crofton Let’s hang out with sailor and Hollywood heartthrob Sterling Hayden on his boat for two hours … why not? You get to watch him say mesmerizing things like this: “My world was the sea hm? And the…
Teen Girls in Texas: Beautiful, Provocative ‘CUSP’ Stands out at DOC NYC Film Festival
By Gregory Crofton I tried to stick with “Attica,” a new documentary about the 1971 prison riot in Upstate New York, but it was dry and newsy — I felt like I had already seen it as soon as a…