This week in movies you missed: We continue with the current Oscar nominees for Best Documentary. When I’m done viewing them, I’ll predict the winner.
But I can already award the Most Memorable Title award to Cutie and the Boxer, Zachary Heinzerling’s study of the 40-year marriage of two artists. (Trailer is here.)
What You Missed
Eighty-year-old Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko, live in a sprawling living/studio space in Brooklyn. He has been creating ferocious neo-Dadaist art — including canvases that he attacks with paint-covered boxing gloves, hence the nickname — since his angry-young-man days in Japan. She draws wry cartoons about their turbulent relationship and grumbles about being in his shadow.
Together, they worry about making the rent. For all Ushio’s ’60s celebrity — the Guggenheim is considering acquiring one of his boxing paintings — money is tight.
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