"The second film from writer/director James Sweeney vindicates my admiration for his first film, Straight Up, which was funny, smart and sweet but not too sweet. In Twinless, two young men (Sweeney and Dylan O'Brien) meet in a support group for people who have lost a twin. There's more to the story, of course, and Sweeney handles the various revelations adroitly, but he knows that stories like this live or die not by their twists alone, but in what happens after the truth comes out."
"Arguably the most controversial director in film history, Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl always denied having known about the Holocaust. She repeated those denials to producer Sandra Maischberger in a 2002 interview. When she died at 101 in 2003, Riefenstahl left 700 boxes of letters, film excerpts and other material to a foundation, and Maischberger offered to organize and catalog them if she could use them in a documentary. This more complete portrait also serves as a commentary on current events."
"Music conservatory students Lionel (Paul Mescal) and David (Josh O'Connor) meet in 1917, bond over folk songs, and fall into a passionate, life-altering affair in Oliver Hermanus' elegiac period romance. Based on a short story by Ben Shattuck, the film shares narrative DNA with Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain," but sings an altogether different tune, as the music-besotted pair traipse through ravishingly-shot hill c"
Fall film highlights include a range of genres from rom-coms and heist pictures to sports-horror mashups, Broadway musicals, biopics, festival winners, and showbiz sagas. Twinless (out now) follows two young men who meet in a support group for people who have lost a twin, with writer/director James Sweeney balancing revelations and aftermath. A Riefenstahl documentary examines the controversial director's denials about the Holocaust and the archive she left behind, with Sandra Maischberger cataloging materials and shaping a more complete portrait that also comments on current events. The History of Sound (Sept. 12) dramatizes a 1917 music-student romance and shared musical obsession.
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