‘Arts’ Archives
Top 10 Movies for 2012
By Howard McQuitter February 2013 will be 12 years since I”'ve been with The Alley Cat.
Lincoln & Silver Linings Playbook
Lincoln Lincoln (2012) ****1/2 Cast: Daniel Day Lewis (Abraham Lincoln), Sally Field (Mary Todd Lincoln), John Hawkes (Robert Latham), Jackie Earle Haley (Alexander Stephens), Tommy Lee Jones (Thaddeus Stephens), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Robert Todd Lincoln), Michael Stanton Kennedy (Hiram Price), Jared Harris (Ulysses Grant), Hal Holbrook (Francis Preston Blair), John Hutton (Senator Charles Summer), Gloria Reuben (Elizabeth Keckley). (PG-13) Running time: 150 minutes. Director: Steven Spielberg. Writer: Tony Kushner. There”'s something special about “Lincoln” even though it”'s been done in film before, Spielberg”'s Daniel Day Lewis swallows the Lincoln character whole like nobody”'s business. In the advent of Spielberg”'s “Lincoln”, Daniel Day Lewis”' Lincoln has a conversation with two Black Union soldiers; one of the men complains about the lower pay for Black soldiers compared to white, absence of Black [...]
The Sessions
by Howard McQuitter II The Sessions (2012) Cast: John Hawke (Mark O' Brien), Helen Hunt (Cheryl Cohen Greene), William H. Macy (Father Brendan), Moon Bloodgood (Vera), Annika Marks (Amanda), Blake Lindsley (Laura White), Adam Arkin (Josh), Robin Weigert (Susan). (R) Running time: 98 minutes. Director: Ben Levin. Twenty-years ago I worked for a lady in an iron lung in St. Paul for three years. In part, that's one reason I wanted to see "The Sessions", the other major reason John Hawke (from Alexander, Minnesota) who is from my home state. I had taken notice of him in "Winter's Bone"(2009) playing the weary uncle of Jennifer Lawrence. Mark (John Hawke), a man in his thirties, is in an iron lung, fires a middle-age attendant he doesn't much care for. He fires her for a pretty attendant. Mark has no movement from the neck down because he had polio in boyhood. That disease doesn't prevent him from attaining a degree in journalism from the University of [...]
