Come Coyote (Dani and Sheilah ReStack, 2019)
In 1975, Los Angeles painter Edward Ruscha made one of his definitive works. A "drawing" made with onio...
2019-05-18 22:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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Cannes It, Buddy
This is Alex Billington. He is one of the worst film critics on the planet. And he always gets to go to...
2019-05-18 19:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostYomeddine (Abu Bakr Shawky, 2018)
Woe be to the Un Certain Regard level film that somehow gets bumped up to Competition. After all, consi...
2019-05-17 06:41:33 +0000 UTC View PostNoise (Olivier Assayas, 2006)
A document of various performances from the 2005 Art Rock Festival in St. Brieuc, France, Noise 2019-05-14 20:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Busy in the Land of Due Diligence
Just a quick note to say, I've been busy at my day job, watching a passel of student films made for my ...
2019-05-10 05:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe New King of Comedy (Stephen Chow, 2019)
Note to self: when the world of cinema is letting you down, just see a Stephen Chow movie.
For on...
2019-05-06 22:56:21 +0000 UTC View PostHigh Life (Claire Denis, 2018)
Sorry, I'm afraid it doesn't quite work. Certainly from the very first shot, Denis and cinematographer ...
2019-05-06 01:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostI Don't Rate TV Shows...
...but thus far Taskmaster gets a [7].
2019-05-06 01:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostUnexpected Brakhage Discovery
Big news! It seems that Stan Brakhage produced a heretofore unknown-to-me sequel to 23rd Psalm Bran...
2019-05-03 15:26:24 +0000 UTC View PostSunset (László Nemes, 2018)
Sunset is a film I quite like in theory. It has a relentless formal style from which it never ...
2019-05-02 19:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post
These Are the Jokes, Folks
You know, at this point I've been pretty much all over America. And everywhere I go, people want to kno...
2019-04-30 21:02:51 +0000 UTC View PostHidden Man (Jiang Wen, 2018)
Jeez, what a slog. I've quite admired Jiang Wen as a director in the past, and although there's a very ...
2019-04-27 20:29:27 +0000 UTC View PostUncle Waz's Corner for Unsolicited Advice
So yeah, sorry, I haven't posted in a minute. In addition to things being intensely awful ar...
2019-04-27 18:23:53 +0000 UTC View PostPhil Solomon (1954-2019)
I have only just minutes ago learned that filmmaker Phil Solomon has passed away. Phil had been in poor...
2019-04-22 03:34:04 +0000 UTC View PostI Wasn't Missing Twitter, But...
It's been two-and-a-half weeks since logging off social media. Generally I feel fine about it. When I g...
2019-04-21 02:16:23 +0000 UTC View PostHer Smell (Alex Ross Perry, 2018)
This is without question Perry's most emotionally direct film since The Color Wheel, although ...
2019-04-20 20:13:21 +0000 UTC View PostMy Ain Folk (Bill Douglas, 1973)
I suppose a question exists as to how fully I can evaluate My Ain Folk, given that it is the m...
2019-04-20 19:40:03 +0000 UTC View PostPeterloo (Mike Leigh, 2018)
This is a somewhat unconventional effort from Mike Leigh, who has tended in his period pieces to avoid ...
2019-04-16 00:36:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt's In The Game (Sondra Perry, 2017)
Thanks to my friend James Hansen, I got to see the video portion of Sondra Perry's multimedia installat...
2019-04-16 00:07:39 +0000 UTC View PostDragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler, 2018)
Who is the director behind the mask?
Recently I heard a set by British comedian Nish Kum...
2019-04-12 18:18:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Kids Don't Stand a Chance
This semester I have been teaching a "Literature and Film" course, and overall it has been reasonably s...
2019-04-11 04:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostShiny Happy People (Holding Hands)
As Mike D'Angelo will happily tell anyone in earshot, I love to read spoilers. If it's going to be awhi...
2019-04-08 05:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostGlass (M. Night Shyamalan, 2019)
You gotta give M. Night some credit. When it came time to jumpstart his floundering career, he didn't g...
2019-04-08 02:32:13 +0000 UTC View PostPublic Service Announcement
Hey, I'm not saying that any of my patrons would do anything as shady as bittorrent. But FYI, the uploa...
2019-04-07 22:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostShadow (Zhang Yimou, 2018)
From what I recall, the reaction to Shadow was pretty muted coming out of Venice and Toronto l...
2019-04-07 03:40:27 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's Better Than Silence?
In "A Lecture," Hollis Frampton turns on the projector and begins with the basics. He allows the projec...
2019-04-03 20:04:43 +0000 UTC View PostSo Pretty (Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli, 2019)
A film so hybridized as to at times feel amorphous, So Pretty is nonetheless a singular, often...
2019-04-01 04:50:10 +0000 UTC View PostFourteen (Dan Sallitt, 2019)
Like a strange hybrid of Pialat and Bergman, Dan Sallitt's new film explores the vicissitudes of a clos...
2019-03-31 19:32:14 +0000 UTC View Post