Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins reviews movies for NPR.org, as well as for reeldc.com, which covers the Washington, D.C., film scene with an emphasis on art, foreign and repertory cinema.
Jenkins spent most of his career in the industry once known as newspapers, working as an editor, writer, art director, graphic artist and circulation director, among other things, for various papers that are now dead or close to it.
He covers popular and semi-popular music for The Washington Post, Blurt, Time Out New York, and the newsmagazine show Metro Connection, which airs on member station WAMU-FM.
Jenkins is co-author, with Mark Andersen, of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. At one time or another, he has written about music for Rolling Stone, Slate, and NPR's All Things Considered, among other outlets.
He has also written about architecture and urbanism for various publications, and is a writer and consulting editor for the Time Out travel guide to Washington. He lives in Washington.
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In the early 20th century, Carl Jung uses the techniques of Sigmund Freud — and a few of his own — to treat a "hysterical" patient. Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen star.
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Clips from newsreels, propaganda films and Hollywood spy dramas help flesh out a documentary about World War II double agent Juan Pujol Garcia, who sold secrets to the German high command — but was secretly working for the British.
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Shot clandestinely in Iran's conservative capital, Hossein Keshavarz's ensemble drama tracks 20-somethings with taboo interests — from Western pop to extramarital sex, drugs and alcohol.
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Two would-be rock-star brothers struggle to make it in the music business, while a high-school rival outpaces them — in a little outfit called U2.
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Based on a Hunter S. Thompson novel, this adventure follows a liquored-up New York journalist (Johnny Depp) during his time in Puerto Rico working for a local newspaper.
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Aki Kaurismaki's quiet comedy follows an aging Frenchman's fight to keep a refugee boy from being deported. (Recommended)
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Loosely based on the career of a real-life ethnomusicologist, this film takes an alternately warm and jaundiced look at a Central African people whose forest homeland is threatened by industrial logging — and the Newark native who goes to live (and listen, and eventually love) among them.
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A documentary, named for one of Peter Gatien's iconic '80s nightclubs, recounts the rise and fall of a clubland king who ran afoul of the DEA.
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A poetic Russian road movie. about two friends who undertake a journey to bid farewell to one of the men's wife, surfaces the traditions of the Finno-Ugric Merja tribe, a group that's (almost) assimilated into Russian culture. (Recommended)
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Three friends grow up in an isolated boarding school where they discover the disturbing purpose of their lives. They must grapple with young love while seeking a way to create their own future. Well adapted from a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the film makes a strange premise feel very real. (Recommended)