The Cold, Hard Facts of Deregulation
The GOP has received its propaganda brief and they are going whole-hog with it. Sadly, the Trump crowd ...
2021-02-18 03:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, 2021)
Jane Schoenbrun's new film is, as we used to say back in grad school, a complicated text. There are a n...
2021-02-15 04:36:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Contemporary Design Solutions for the Advertisement of Wordily-Titled Films
Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horvát, 2020)
In order to wrap my puny brain around Preparations, I had to come to terms with a niggling pro...
2021-02-13 23:49:35 +0000 UTC View PostCahiers explain
the presence of Sophie Letourneur's Enormous on your 2020 top ten. I just tried watching it an...
2021-02-13 03:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostLightning (Mikio Naruse, 1952)
First things first: if you haven't checked out 2021-02-12 20:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The Truffle Hunters (Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, 2020)
Given the evident mastery behind this documentary, it's strange that I feel so ambivalent about it. But...
2021-02-12 04:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostTeenage Emotions (Frédéric Da, 2021)
DISCLAIMER: It feels a bit odd to write a review of a film made by one of the subscribers to this very ...
2021-02-11 20:37:10 +0000 UTC View Post"You wanna get Capone? Here's how you get Capone."
One of the irritating things about the academy (and believe me, the list is long) is the simultaneous f...
2021-02-09 19:11:15 +0000 UTC View PostRotterdam 5
Pebbles (Vinothraj P.S., 2021)
Nothing struck me as particularly award-winning h...
2021-02-08 21:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostLate Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse, 1954)
My second Naruse, and given the subject matter, I kept thinking about how this treatment of the lives o...
2021-02-08 03:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostNo IFFRs, Ands, or Buts (expanded)
Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan, 2021)
I fear I'm am falling into a habit w...
2021-02-06 22:36:09 +0000 UTC View PostFlunky, Work Hard! (Mikio Naruse, 1931)
Without really meaning to, I began this month's Naruse project with the director's oldest surviving fil...
2021-02-04 23:32:32 +0000 UTC View Post"'Dam, 'Dam, 'Dam!!"
Aurora (Paz Fábrega, 2021)
Essentially a two-hander character study, Aurora...
2021-02-04 21:31:17 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I Say "Rotter," You Say "Dam!"
Based on the action on Letterboxd, it seems I'm the only person who isn't doing Sundance by remote. So ...
2021-02-04 04:21:05 +0000 UTC View PostA Quick Word About the Golden Globes
This year's COVID edition of awards season should really be ignored, or at least marked with a gigantic...
2021-02-03 17:38:58 +0000 UTC View PostA Lil' Bit o' Rotterdam in My Life
I am not sure how many films I will be watching with my IFFR Press credentials. I must admit, nothing l...
2021-02-02 20:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostLola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)
Although I am well aware of the canonical status of Lola Montès, I can't help feeling a certa...
2021-02-02 19:24:09 +0000 UTC View PostSOPHIE (1986-2021)
This is devastating news. SOPHIE was a groundbreaking artist whose life and career had just begun. Rest...
2021-01-30 18:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostFrom Mayerling to Sarajevo (Max Ophüls, 1940)
I just read that From Mayerling to Sarajevo was a flop with both audiences and critics. Althou...
2021-01-29 20:26:11 +0000 UTC View PostLe Plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1952)
Prior to watching Le Plaisir, all I really knew about it was that it supplied the final shot o...
2021-01-28 20:13:14 +0000 UTC View Post"What if we Occupy Wall Street in a DIFFERENT way?"
If the SEC closes out the Reddit investors, and Biden lets it happen, we may witness an insurgence that...
2021-01-28 19:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostGetting to Know You: February Run-Off
Like last time, I'm doing a follow-up poll with the three top vote-getters.
Tomorrow I'll write about the (somewhat disappointing) Le Plaisir. And I have saved the last for best.
Atlantis (Valentyn Vasyanovych, 2019)
A few years back, I decided to watch a random selection of films on Festival Scope. My thought was, may...
2021-01-27 19:18:20 +0000 UTC View PostCaught (Max Ophüls, 1949)
Caught is probably the strangest of the Ophüls films I've seen so far. In my lexicon, that wo...
2021-01-27 01:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostGetting To Know You #2
I still have a couple of Ophüls films to watch and write up. But I figured I'd go ahead and get the February poll underway.
What will I be watching?
2021-01-25 08:41:49 +0000 UTC View PostLux Æterna (Gaspar Noé, 2019)
Following the critical and commercial success of Climax, Gaspar Noé did an odd thing. He acce...
2021-01-25 08:23:22 +0000 UTC View PostSome Kind of Heaven (Lance Oppenheim, 2020)
Some Kind of Heaven is a tough film to evaluate. As a documentary, it more than accomplishes w...
2021-01-23 00:40:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, 1949)
The Reckless Moment may be the perfect auteurist specimen. The story itself is not all that co...
2021-01-22 07:00:25 +0000 UTC View Post