"Forty Shades of Blue" is a muted but nicely observed study of a Russian woman's gradual estrangement from her domineering Memphis music-legend husband. This long-awaited second feature from Ira Sachs ...

Lithe, blonde, and leggy, Laura is, at least outwardly, the quintessence of a musician’s arm jewelry. She lives with Alan James (Rip Torn), an aging blues producer who is revered despite his prickly ...

The family drama “Forty Shades of Blue,” centering on a modern Oedipal triangle involving a music producer, a Russian wife half his age and his son, won top dramatic honors at the Sundance Film ...

With his deeply felt “Forty Shades of Blue,” writer-director Ira Sachs again returns to his native Memphis, Tenn., the setting of his tender 1997 debut feature, “The Delta,” a love story involving the ...

It’s the winner of a Grand Jury Prize from the Sundance Film Festival, but there’s nothing grand about “Forty Shades of Blue.” This movie is as small and sneaky as a faintly heard blues melody in the ...

Wealthy music producer Alan James lives with his beautiful 30-years-younger Russian girlfriend Laura, whom he met while he was in Russia on business; they have a three-year-old son. Alan is a music ...

Memphis-born-and-raised filmmaker Ira Sachs returns to his hometown Sunday for an Indie Memphis Film Festival screening of his latest feature, "Frankie," which — like most of Sachs' work since his ...

The two recent Bill Murray ennui-fests, Broken Flowers and Lost in Translation, illustrate how quietly introspective moments of passion and betrayal can have a cumulative emotional effect as ...

You can tell why some disagreed with the choice. Not much happens in the movie, and what plot there is involves a soap-operatic triangle between a Russian immigrant, the much-older man she lives with ...

I’m worried that the audience for artful, engaging (and yes, sometimes challenging) American cinema is truly dead. Lodge Kerrigan’s utterly gripping and emotionally satisfying “Keane” — one of the ...