Gateway Movies offers ways to begin exploring directors, genres and topics in film by examining a few streaming movies. Last month, I found myself a dissenting voice on one of the summer’s most acclaimed films, “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.” At first glance, the movie appears to be a documentary about the final day of a Las Vegas-area dive bar called Roaring ’20s. But the directors, the brothers Bill and Turner Ross, never reveal that this setup was contrived. The actual Roaring ’20s bar, which wasn’t closing, was near New Orleans. To the movie’s fans, the deception is forgivable.

Source: New York Times August 20, 2020 18:00 UTC