22 stories by "Erin Teachman"
The Florida Project covers part of a summer in the life of the denizens of motels along US 192, a stretch of highway right around the entrance to one of Walt Disney's places. It is a world w…
Instagram should probably be billed as a co-star in Ingrid Goes West. Instagram's rhythms; tap tap, CLICK, an empty heart goes lovely pinkish red; it's mannerisms, and aesthetic, #perfect ar…
Landline, the latest from Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm, the creative team behind Obvious Child, opens with the sounds of… rutting, I guess is the word I can use in a family publi…
Exit, Pursued by a Bear, produced by Barabbas Theatre for their 2017 CapFringe entry and directed by Kevin O'Connell, is a welcome DC introduction to Lauren Gunderson's pithy, ratatat meta r…
Tiresias' Tits is a self-described satirical, surreal, burlesque (fun fact – the author of the ur-source material, The Breasts of Tiresias, Guillaume Apollinaire, is respon…
Morningstar is a small chamber drama playing in the basement of Shopkeeper's on Florida Ave, (a venue whose old wooden floors add quite a bit of natural folly to the performance, some useful…
The fallout of the financial crisis is still being thrashed out in full public view, which makes for a terribly difficult documentary subject; we are a long way from knowing where most of it…
Near the beginning of The Wedding Plan, the latest from Israeli-American filmmaker Rama Burshtein, we find ourselves in an uncomfortable place. Michal, whom we first met at a fortune teller'…
The Lost City of Z is a throwback adventure story. Based on the book of the same name by David Grann, the film follows Percy Fawcett at the tail end of the era of grand discoveries, when it …
Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal is not a film that is terribly interested in explaining things, which probably is for the best in a movie about a woman connected to a kaiju that appears out of no…
The central insight of Barak Goodman's new documentary, OKLAHOMA CITY, presented by American Experience and airing on February 7th, is that the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Buildi…
Operation Anthropoid was the code name for a mission planned by Czech government-in-exile with the British SOE to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, who was the head of the SS and a primary logi…
Captain Fantastic begins innocently enough, with gorgeous shots of a deer in the wild (Stéphane Fontaine's cinematography is a standout feature of this film). Then that deer is slaughtered …
Normal/Magic is a diptych of two magical realism style stories, "Magic for Beginners", written by Natalie Piegari and directed by Sam Mauceri and "Normal Sea," where Sam Mauceri slides over …
Zero Days begins with a mystery. In 2010, an anti-virus expert from Belarus was tapped to help clients figure out what was going on with virus that had shown up on their networks with alarmi…
Final Day of the AFI DOCS and it ends with a nice and easy day, just two but sadly for you, I can only talk about the one (well, you won't regret that in a moment, I promise). I saw two film…
One of my favorite strategies for navigating the sheer volume of films in a packed festival is to, on at least one day, let the screening committee do my work for me and put myself in one th…
The Opening Night Gala which featured a new documentary from Alex Gibney on that Stuxnet virus you've probably forgotten about called Zero Days. That has a much more prosaic explanation: …
Love & Friendship opens with a sigh of regret from an unknown and unnamed narrator as one Lady Susan Vernon takes her leave of the Manwarings (pronounced as if that "w" was a boorish …
We should have known. Beyoncé dropped Formation in February, a song, a music video, and a Super Bowl performance that laid it all out: Yoncé was a black woman, a beautiful, successful, Sou…
It's not every day that the world's greatest entertainer asks the President to become an undercover narcotics agent (and the badge that goes with it, of course). Up until Elvis did it, it wa…
Shakespeare presents a language barrier for actors and audience alike. Typically, companies affect British accents ("received pronunciation" – not everyone is a fan), though many compa…
