‘Silent Friend’ Review: Ildikó Enyedi’s Utterly Enchanting New Film Speaks for the Trees

Thirty years ago or so, British arborist Thomas Pakenham had an unlikely bestseller with “Meetings With Remarkable Trees,” a lavish, photographically illustrated doorstop that, for a time, seemed to adorn at least every other coffee table in sight. The book, a valentine to the largest and most enduring plants on our planet, eschewed standard botanical […]