'Tis the Season (2)
And here's the other. Enjoy.
2020-12-21 00:48:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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'Tis the Season (1)
I really only like two holiday songs. Here's one of them.
2020-12-21 00:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostTenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020)
I happen to be of the opinion that Christopher Nolan's best film is The Prestige (with Dun...
2020-12-19 03:27:54 +0000 UTC View PostNature (Artavazd Pelechian, 2020)
Armenian experimentalist Artavazd Pelechian has built a reputation on very little work, if by "work" we...
2020-12-18 22:09:41 +0000 UTC View PostND/NF: Is This Anything?
Since I am banned from Twitter, I have limited access to the Cinephile Hive Mind (CHM)™️. So I have to put the question to you. Have any of you seen some of these New Directors films? I'm wonde...
2020-12-17 20:28:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe American Sector (Pacho Velez & Courtney Stephens, 2020)
I seem to be in a distinct minority on this one, since most reviews I've read are fairly glowing. I was...
2020-12-14 02:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostMr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955)
I'd never seen Arkadin before, and I was partly prompted to see it because of all the discours...
2020-12-13 06:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostSomebody please tell me why...
. . . The Prom is 130 fucking minutes long? Haven't we suffered enough?
2020-12-11 20:28:21 +0000 UTC View PostCold Meridian (Peter Strickland, 2020)
I have no interest in ASMR. Not only do I find the videos boring; the sound stuff doesn't work on me. I...
2020-12-11 20:11:18 +0000 UTC View PostSpring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon, 2020)
One of the films that apparently would have been featured in Un Certain Regard if Cannes 2020 had actua...
2020-12-11 19:49:42 +0000 UTC View PostTommaso (Abel Ferrara, 2019)
Tommaso is a film that virtually compels us to read it as autobiography. It's about an America...
2020-12-10 21:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Midnight Sky (George Clooney, 2020)
NOTE: This "social reaction" is EMBARGOED. So let's keep it entre nous, fam.
2020-12-09 06:36:49 +0000 UTC
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City Hall (Frederick Wiseman, 2020)
The great Frederick Wiseman will turn 91 on New Year's Day. Like a handful of old masters (Godard and M...
2020-12-09 04:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostDear Comrades! (Andrei Konchalovsky, 2020)
With the exception of his brother Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Konchalovsky may be the most well-connected ...
2020-12-08 18:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Maltese Cross Movement (Keewatin Dewdney, 1967)
Quite unexpectedly, I finally had the chance to see Keewatin Dewdney's The Ma...
2020-12-08 17:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostDavid Byrne's American Utopia (Spike Lee, 2020)
"Utopia -- the more impossible it seems, the more necessary it becomes." (Yvonne Rainer)
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung, 2020)
Let's see: Dreamer dad (Steven Yeun), steadfast but skeptical wife (Han Ye-ri), mostly nonde...
2020-12-03 23:10:12 +0000 UTC View PostCollective (Alexander Nanau, 2019)
Over on Letterboxd, I discovered 2020-12-03 03:03:51 +0000 UTC View Post
White Lie (Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, 2019)
White Lie is almost intolerable. It creates a scenario of fundamental tension -- a liar and gr...
2020-12-02 21:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostA Modest Proposal:
Someone should loop this soundbite into a kick-ass EDM cut called "Hit Those Speakers."
2020-12-01 19:35:47 +0000 UTC View PostUncle Frank (Alan Ball, 2020)
Ball gonna Ball. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's mystifying, in a way, that Uncle Frank arrives on gl...
2020-11-30 07:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Mole Agent (Maite Alberdi, 2020)
An unconventional documentary in a number of respects, The Mole Agent is effortlessly entertai...
2020-11-30 06:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostRoutine Pleasures
Black Bear (Lawrence Michael Levine, 2020)
Back in 2014, I saw Levine's film
After Lucia (Michel Franco, 2012)
Michel Franco is not Michael Haneke. This strikes me as an obvious enough point that I really ...
2020-11-22 19:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Nest (Sean Durkin, 2020)
With its insistence on atmosphere over plot, The Nest is kind of a perfect sophomore film, the...
2020-11-21 21:06:40 +0000 UTC View PostFireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (Werner Herzog and Armando Christian Pérez, 2020)
Cinetracts '20 (various filmmakers, 2020)
Omnibus films. We all have traumatic memories of them. Do you remember where you where when you saw
Two Films by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
It's a cliche, but it's unavoidably true. A critic experiences few pleasures greater than that of disco...
2020-11-18 07:10:06 +0000 UTC View PostMLK/FBI (Sam Pollard, 2020)
The documentary as preamble, or perhaps as prolepsis. It is understandable that every generation requir...
2020-11-13 18:31:38 +0000 UTC View PostMake Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
Back when I taught Film 101, I always showed Tokyo Story. In general, students responded well ...
2020-11-13 05:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post