Little Murders (Alan Arkin, 1971)
BY REQUEST: Michelle Berman
After watching Little Murders, I read a bit...
2023-11-23 21:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Killer (David Fincher, 2023)
My lovely wife Jen is a much bigger fan of David Fincher than I am. She's liked most of his films but i...
2023-11-22 02:57:33 +0000 UTC View PostMechanisms Common to Disparate Phenomena: #59 (Joost Rekveld, 2023)
Time has been kind to the pure abstraction sometimes called "visual music." In the world of experimenta...
2023-11-20 19:52:05 +0000 UTC View PostPassages (Ira Sachs, 2023)
BY REQUEST: Jorge (because I could not find his first choice)
Despite recognizin...
2023-11-19 03:24:39 +0000 UTC View PostWe Are So-So Back
I've been getting back into movies a bit over the past few days. Tomorrow, Jen heads to London for a long weekend, and I expect I'll take the opportunity to hit the Killer Moon-Priscil...
2023-11-17 21:38:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams, 2023)
It's patently obvious that Eduardo Williams' The Human Surge 3 is unlike pretty much any film ...
2023-11-13 06:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostBoonmee in Action
This is the last dead cat related post. I just think the video gives a really good sense of who he was.
2023-11-09 20:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostBoonmee, and a Brief Pause
I am going to take a few days off from posting any writing. Yesterday my dear cat Boonmee died very suddenly. ...
Samsara (Lois Patiño, 2023)
Although I've always found Armond White's "Better Than" list to be needlessly petulant, I do occasional...
2023-11-07 04:45:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Losing Steam
This is always a difficult time of year, even without the added stress of having my reviews sharing ser...
2023-11-03 03:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostBrief Update on WTAF-Gate
The offending website, Kemono, has an email address marked "Legal," and I sent them a firm request to d...
2023-11-01 23:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostWHAT (and I cannot emphasize this enough) THE FUCK
So today I got an email from a festival publicist, telling me that a filmmaker had complained to them t...
2023-10-31 18:55:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Royal Hotel (Kitty Green, 2023)
Two travelers from Canada, Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) run out of money in Australia...
2023-10-31 04:22:23 +0000 UTC View PostMarathon (Amir Naderi, 2022)
BY REQUEST: Michael Ewins
I watched Marathon a full eighteen years ago....
2023-10-30 04:16:11 +0000 UTC View PostAnatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2023)
Now, as November approaches, we find ourselves careening into the period where prestige pictures assert...
2023-10-29 03:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere (Bas Devos, 2023)
I knew next to nothing about Here when I watched it, aside from the fact that it's Belgian, an...
2023-10-25 03:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
Alas, my very first Visconti film. Like a handful of other major directors, he is someone I just never ...
2023-10-24 02:09:57 +0000 UTC View PostTótem (Lila Avilés, 2023)
Lila Avilés' second film is as claustrophobic and enveloping as her debut, The Chambermaid, w...
2023-10-20 03:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Selection Time Again!
Since I saw my last lingering Subscriber Request film tonight, it's time to select three more choosers....
2023-10-18 03:34:27 +0000 UTC View PostStop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
BY REQUEST: Lucas Holloway
Among the myriad feelings and revelations I had while...
2023-10-18 03:20:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Night Visitors (Michael Gitlin, 2023)
Over on Bluesky Social [got invites if you need 'em], I remarked that The Night Visitors is pr...
2023-10-17 03:12:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fist (Ayo Akingbade, 2022)
There is an inherent fascination with learning how things are made. And while the production of the pro...
2023-10-14 05:36:26 +0000 UTC View PostMan In Black (Wang Bing, 2023)
Ambition is a strange thing. By most people's reckoning, Wang Bing's nearly four hour documentary Y...
2023-10-14 03:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostSaturn Bowling (Patricia Mazuy, 2022)
Saturn Bowling is a film that is so blatant in its construction that it often just feels stupi...
2023-10-12 05:31:07 +0000 UTC View PostElephant (Alan Clarke, 1989)
I suppose I've thought about Clarke's Elephant in the same way most cinephiles think about
Some Early Wenders
For obvious reasons, Wim Wenders has been back on my cinephile radar, and (for equally obvious reasons)...
2023-10-11 02:43:13 +0000 UTC View PostA Few Selections from NYFF Currents
I've been meaning to jot down a brief word about these films for nearly a month now. At a certain point...
2023-10-10 02:31:40 +0000 UTC View PostWes Anderson's Dahl-House
Fucking Netflix. If 32 minutes of underbaked Almodóvar can open in commercial cinemas, then surely 91 ...
2023-10-09 04:27:40 +0000 UTC View Post