This Norwegian film is like reading a great novel that unfolds gradually and offers poignant imagery and sharply drawn characters.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
All by Bruce Steele
This Norwegian film is like reading a great novel that unfolds gradually and offers poignant imagery and sharply drawn characters.
This worshipful, star-studded, oh-so-Canadian documentary will leave you with a warm nostalgia for the man it argues is the Bob Dylan of the North.
The provocative fashion photographer is lauded and assessed by his fellow icons, including Grace Jones and Isabella Rossellini.
Unless you’re an art historian, this film is guaranteed to tell you things you didn’t know about the artist, his works, and his family.
Essentially a “making of” documentary, “Yours Truly” chronicles the creation of a remarkable art installation at Alcatraz in 2014.
No preview trailer or still image can do justice to the beauty of this documentary and its subject, gender-bending astrologer Walter Mercado. Put it on your watch list now.
A gripping and unpredictable German drama, set in the world of classical music.
A compact, star-studded, and informative biography of America’s most beloved jazz singer.
This three-part film traces the progress of LGBTQ rights across more than 30 years through the turmoil in the lives of one French family.
Bill Nighy is his usual brilliant self in this amusing and moving modern parable about family dynamics and how to win at Scrabble.
This French-Algerian film is an admirable portrait of resilient youth, diluted by its rather soapy plot choices.
No one needs to the “Ghost in the Noonday Sun,” a terrible slapstick pirate comedy from 1973, but anyone interested in moviemaking should certainly see this doc about how the star sank the film.
One of the most intimate and unlikely documentaries you’re ever likely to see, the film traces an artist’s obsession with the thief who stole two of her paintings.
There’s nothing original about Military Wives, but its predictability is part of its charm.
With expert commentary, the artist’s correspondence in voiceover by Brian Cox, and lovely travel photography, Portraits of a Life is a complete package for art lovers.
An engaging blend of densely packed history, countless interviews, and soaring performances, all grounded in the Big Easy’s musical traditions.
A wealth of contemporary film footage as well as fresh interviews recount the rise and fall of the ecological utopia Biosphere 2 in the early 1990s.
Whether you’re casually interested or a dedicated fan, this documentary will draw you into the artist’s fascinating works and life.
This clip show from one month in New York City in 2017 has recurring references to climate change and the future, but mostly it’s just pretty images and narrative dead ends.
The second film to tell this amazing and true East German escape story is consistently entertaining and adheres largely to the facts.