A Note About Beyoncé's "Black Is King"
I'm of two minds about this. Overall I think it's great how Ms. Knowles-Carter has essentially taken mi...
2020-08-02 21:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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Two Shorts by Matthew Rankin
Although I quite enjoyed Matthew Rankin's feature debut The Twentieth Century, there was a nag...
2020-08-01 23:19:36 +0000 UTC View PostFireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi, 2006)
Objectively "good," just not for me. The thing that has impressed me so much about both A Separatio...
2020-07-30 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostKlute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971)
This is one of those classics that I feel a bit sheepish about writing up. Is there really any more to ...
2020-07-29 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostUna película en color (Bruno Delgado Ramo, 2019)
First off, thanks to Jordan Cronk for alerting me to the existence of this experimental gem, a new work...
2020-07-27 18:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostShirley (Josephine Decker, 2020)
By far my favorite film by @josephinejambox, although that admission makes me feel a bit guilty, I supp...
2020-07-25 23:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostRest in Peace, Regis.
A TV legend, a man of great talent and integrity who never took himself too seriously. For non-American readers unfamiliar with Regis Philbin, his closest international peer would be Bruce Forsyth ...
2020-07-25 22:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostMartha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
One of the handful of Fassbinders I had not seen, Martha is striking for a number of reasons. ...
2020-07-22 06:28:09 +0000 UTC View PostPost-Twitter Waste of Time
I should really know better.
Lately I've been wasting time at a site called 2020-07-20 21:02:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I Am Somebody (Madeline Anderson, 1970) + two others
A truly stunning document, Madeline Anderson's I Am Somebody is a complicated film to watch ri...
2020-07-20 20:00:48 +0000 UTC View PostGlen or Glenda (Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1953)
I've always been a fan of Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space, despite the protestations of tastema...
2020-07-20 19:30:46 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog, 2019)
Herzog's latest -- a fiction film that often resembles a documentary -- is a frustrating film that I of...
2020-07-14 20:31:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe Long Haul
Watching an eight-hour film on F******l S***e, with its shoddy-ass streaming, is going to take some tim...
2020-07-13 20:27:11 +0000 UTC View PostOh Mercy [Roubaux, un lumière] (Arnaud Desplechin, 2019)
[CONTAINS SPOILERS]
To say that Desplechin's latest film is "odd" would be accurate, but misleadi...
2020-07-11 02:51:35 +0000 UTC View PostIdiotboxing
Okay, so when you're under quarantine with your partner, you do things you might not otherwise do, to i...
2020-07-09 01:24:14 +0000 UTC View PostMaggie's Farm (James Benning, 2020)
Well, I wake up in the morning
Fold my hands and pray for rain
I got a head full of ideas
...
It's That Time Again, Friends!
Having exhausted many of my options, yet wanting to remain semi-relevant to the critical conversations ...
2020-07-05 23:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostNever Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 2020)
Eliza Hittman's third feature film is difficult to evaluate. In some ways it's tempting to simply give ...
2020-07-04 12:40:03 +0000 UTC View PostOne Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (Zacharias Kunuk, 2019)
Zacharias Kunuk is the world's leading director in the Inuktitut language. Why doesn't that translate t...
2020-07-02 04:52:09 +0000 UTC View PostOne Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning, 1977) and 27 Years Later (James Benning, 2005)
Some of my readers may be surprised that I had not already seen One Way Boogie Woogie, which m...
2020-07-02 02:14:17 +0000 UTC View PostA Couple of Quick Thoughts
NOTE: Now that I am summarily banned from Twitter, I will occasionally be dropping quickie posts like t...
2020-06-26 19:48:02 +0000 UTC View PostCrime Wave (John Paizs, 1985)
One of those films I always meant to catch up with just based on its reputation, Crime Wave, t...
2020-06-26 03:23:10 +0000 UTC View PostColor Out of Space (Richard Stanley, 2019)
The Fuschia is Now....
One of the most interesting things about Color Out of Space 2020-06-23 15:45:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Days of Cannibalism (Teboho Edkins, 2020)
While watching films for the Visions du Réel festival, I caught Teboho Edkins' medium-length documenta...
2020-06-23 03:53:38 +0000 UTC View PostMartin Eden (Pietro Marcello, 2019)
Pietro Marcello is a director who, for me, has been hovering in the "interesting" zone for quite some t...
2020-06-23 01:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostMiss Juneteenth (Channing Godfrey Peoples, 2020)
A reasonably promising debut film, Miss Juneteenth speaks to the difficulty of funding and pro...
2020-06-22 23:03:54 +0000 UTC View PostHyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis, 2016)
By popular demand, here is the brief review I wrote about Curtis's 2016 iteration of his usual libertarian, Chapo-approved cant. I am not going to pretend that he does not make a few good points he...
2020-06-22 17:19:17 +0000 UTC View PostSay Their Names.
Tete Gulley (Portland, OR -- May 27)
Malcolm Harsch (Victorville, CA -- May 31)
Dominique Alexander (New York, NY -- June 9)
The King of Staten Island (Judd Apatow, 2020)
I'll get over you, I know I will / though you messed me up by dyin'
I'll get over yo...
2020-06-15 22:13:26 +0000 UTC View PostInventing the Future (Isiah Medina, 2020)
Isiah Medina's follow-up to the exhilarating 88:88 goes in a considerably different direction,...
2020-06-15 19:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post