A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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Woman in Gold (2015)

May 15, 2015

In Woman in Gold Curtis presents the six-year legal battle undertaken by Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) and her lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), the grandson of the composer Arnold Schoenberg, for the restitution of Altmann’s family heirloom — Gustav Klimt’s 1907 “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” — seized by the Nazis not long after the March 1938 Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. Adele Bloch-Bauer was Altmann’s aunt; Klimt a family friend who benefited from the frequent patronage of the Bloch-Bauer clan. Neither the provenance of the painting nor Nazi plundering is at issue here.

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