Year: 2020

Just Because Wednesday, Movies at Home: ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’

Jeff Mitchell

Last Wednesday, AHFW looked at our favorite movie from 2018, Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War”, a film set mostly in Poland during the 1950s and 60s.  This Wednesday, we’ll stay in Eastern Europe, but shift to 1980s Romania in the visceral, tense and feels-altogether-real “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”. “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” – It’s wintertime, and although snow only exists in small traces near the edges of sidewalks, temperatures are frigid.  People wear heavy jackets, and the skies are gray.  At the local university, the…

Jamie Lee Curtis hosts a free ‘John Wick’ online screening on Friday, May 8

Jeff Mitchell

Any plans on Friday?  Where are you heading out?  Yea, we thought so.  We’ll be home on Friday, May 8 too, but how about this: Jamie Lee Curtis is hosting a free online “John Wick” (2014) screening that night! Yes, the legendary screen queen and the Keanu Reeves vigilante-vehicle – that spurred two sequels with a third on the way – will arrive on Lionsgate’s YouTube Page, and here’s the link: Lionsgate Movies.  Ms. Curtis and the gunplay madness will start a 9pm EST/6pm PST, and we’ll be there too! Image…

Just because Wednesday, Movies at Home: ‘Cold War’

Jeff Mitchell

Every Wednesday, Art House Film Wire touts our favorite movies, because…well, just because!  This is especially true this week.   No, we don’t have a specific news tie-in or birthday to trigger a celebration of the Oscar-nominated  “Cold War” (2018), an intricately-constructed story of a dysfunctional relationship during the 1950s and 60s. We just love this movie. Now, director Alfonso Cuaron’s heavy favorite “Roma” (2018) won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” was not only our favorite foreign film of the year, but our #1 picture…