Harlan Jacobson

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And our film critic Harlan Jacobson has returned from a number of film festivals with a review of two very interesting movies.

The New York Film Festival might have closed with Homegrown the only living pickpocket in New York, had it not premiered in Toronto and Sundance before that.

It's so New York, following the always watchable homeboy character ace John Turturro, who snags a leading role rarely.

Tender Loving Care is said to be Mike Lee's final film.

At 83, his field of play this last time out is looking at what mom, da, and the grown-up kids do to and for each other in their working class flat.

We caught up with our film critic Harlan Jacobson just back from his swing through the Toronto, San Sebastian, and now the 64th New York Film Festival.

For over 50 years, Mike Lee has mastered the hard art of simply dropping you into a room and letting you watch real people work through the gears changing in their universe.

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And our film critic Harlan Jacobson has returned from the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals.

All this coming up today on the WBGO Journal.

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The fall festivals mark the start of the Oscar campaigns, which doesn't always mean the films taking the field succeed at being seriously good.

but that the filmmakers think they have an Oscar-caliber film.

A few jumped out at our film critic, Harlan Jacobson, from the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals.

The Housewife had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, or TIFF, which is a kind of linguistic shorthand for conflict, after all.

It says this movie is built on the dark side of our fears and fantasies about women in the workplace.

Harlan Jacobson wrote that review.

It sounds kind of almost laughable to say fears of women in the workplace.

But yeah, it does kind of seem like that's that's what this movie is saying is.