Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Quite frankly there are many major films of merit released in the last six weeks of the year to qualify for consideration in the upcoming […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: MOVIES THAT MATTER November 2013
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES! The Square dir Jehane Noujaim Last January, Egyptian-America filmmaker Jehane Noujaim and her crew literally landed in Salt Lake direct […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter October 2013
October 2013 Quel deluge! The awards season scramble is upon us. Every day it would seem a new “important” film opens in New York City. […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies that Matter September 2013
Blame our neighbor Harvey Weinstein for the grand deluge of quality films that will fall almost daily from the sky between September 1st and December […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies that Matter August 2013
Academy Awards qualifying time has now crept into what used to be the sleepy month for movies. So, August brings an abundance of quality movies. […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: movies that matter July 2013
July 2013 It is summer, which means big movies that will try to frighten you on some unconscious level. In the current political climate, with […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies that Matter. May 2013
We have just put to bed the best Tribeca Film Festival since its beginning. Kudos to programming chiefs Genna Terranova, Geoffrey Gilmore, and Frederic Boyer […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter April 2013
April: 2013 A recent email asked me why I do not review the “big” films. As a monthly publication, I include films that the print […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter January 2013
Looking back on the over 500 films I have seen in 2012, I think it has been a very good year for the moviegoer. That […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter December 2012
Well, I think it really is our Bank Street neighbor’s fault. As head of Miramax years ago, Harvey Weinstein came up with a sure-fire way […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies That Matter November 2012
OMG! DOC NYC appears to have been both working out and taking anabolic drugs that stimulate muscle and growth. Thom Powers’ dream of bringing a […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter October 2012
October 2012 OMG! Who put the four shots of espresso in the old lady’s coffee? Suddenly, the New York Film Festival (NYFF) has exploded into […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter September 2012
September brings an onslaught of quality movies competing for an Academy award nomination. In approximately 10 weeks, 82 films will open in New York City […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL : Movies That Matter August 2012
August and the summer spectacle film release deluge. I don’t usually write about such films in Reel Deal, but sometimes merit checkmates snobbism. So yes, […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter July 2012
Summer usually means the release of films that do not challenge in the air conditioned multiplex world of movie consumption. However, have no fear, the […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: MOVIES THAT MATTER June 2012
So many excellent movies in June you could spend almost every night inside a dark room with strangers watching light bouncing across a screen; just […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter May 2012
ACT UP Documentaries: How to Survive a PLAGUE (second look) and UNITED IN ANGER: the History of ACT UP + WE WERE HERE Commemorating the […]
Jim Fouratt’s Reel Deal: Movies That Matter February 2012
I write this column from the Sundance Film Festival. Robert Redford in his opening remarks made clear that the Festival and Sundance Institute remain committed […]