Ghost Town Anthology (Denis Côté, 2019)
For years now, I have greatly admired the work of Quebecois director Denis Côté without ever exactly ...
2019-03-25 04:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Just Don't Think I'll Scream (Frank Beauvais, 2019)
Is cinephilia healthy? It's a question I suspect a lot of us ask ourselves from time to time, and altho...
2019-03-21 04:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostMS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz, with Deragh Campbell, 2019)
This midlength film, about Audrey (Campbell), a young literary executor researching the correspondence ...
2019-03-17 03:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostHigh Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh, 2019)
Although Soderbergh's latest opened in a few theaters (NY and LA, I think), this is a Netflix productio...
2019-03-17 03:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostI Wrote an Ad for the Democrats.
They can use it for free.
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From the very beginning, Donald Trump has done very little to hide the fact that he was using the Presidency to make himself richer...
2019-03-14 19:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostMore Than You Bargained For
I should be writing about Steven Soderbergh's (quite lovely) High Flying Bird in this space, b...
2019-03-14 01:33:20 +0000 UTC View PostSoleil Ô (Med Hondo, 1970)
Med Hondo, one of the key figures in the history of African cinema, passed away on March 2 at the age o...
2019-03-12 05:13:55 +0000 UTC View PostSauvage (Camille Vidal-Naquet, 2018)
A filmic portrait of a young man on the margins of society, Sauvage is precisely the kind of m...
2019-03-12 04:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostVever (Deborah Stratman, 2019)
Deborah Stratman's lovely new film is a collaboration with Barbara Hammer, comprised mostly of footage ...
2019-03-09 22:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Magic Life of V (Tonislav Hristov, 2019)
The Magic Life of V is an interesting specimen, in that it actually becomes less compelling of...
2019-03-06 19:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hottest August (Brett Story, 2019)
In what strikes me as a rather direct nod to Chris Marker and Edgar Morin's classic Le Joli Mai 2019-03-04 17:13:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Now something is slowly changing (mint film office, 2018)
Just a brief note on this one, since I turned it off at the 45 minute mark (with an hour left). This fi...
2019-03-02 04:28:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe Chambermaid (Lila Avilés, 2018)
Although The Chambermaid is a strong film on its own merits, I found myself mentally comparing...
2019-03-01 03:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Plagiarists (Peter Parlow, 2019)
In different circumstances -- referring to highly abstract works of the avant-garde -- I have argued th...
2019-03-01 00:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostPolishing Off Cannes 2018 (or trying to)
Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov, 2018)
On the face of it, Leto ["Summer"] is...
2019-02-25 18:27:10 +0000 UTC View PostTwo Things I Read Today, or, Doing Cinephilia Better
Quite by chance, I read two articles today that worked in tandem to make me reflect, not only on what I...
2019-02-24 21:28:56 +0000 UTC View PostBrief Notes on a Couple of Films, or "Meh"
Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi, 2018)
Or, as I'm sure Mike D'Angelo would say, ...
2019-02-24 19:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'm Still Here (Casey Affleck, 2010)
Sorry for the lack of posts, guys. I just had a writing deadline, followed by a spike of activity in my...
2019-02-22 17:56:09 +0000 UTC View PostChinese Portrait (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2018)
It seems like only a few weeks ago (and in fact it was) that I was commenting on Wang Xiaoshuai's S...
2019-02-19 01:38:45 +0000 UTC View PostTempting Devils (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2018)
French cinema's favorite pervy uncle is back, and he's using a MacBook Pro to create a strange approxim...
2019-02-15 19:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostLes Proies (The Game) (Marina de Contes, 2018)
The English title of Les Proies, "The Game," is a bit misleading. I suppose de Contes did not ...
2019-02-15 01:37:18 +0000 UTC View PostPresent.Perfect. (Shengze Zhu, 2019)
This compilation film, which won the Tiger competition at Rotterdam, is subtle in its construction, so ...
2019-02-13 06:09:31 +0000 UTC View PostNo Data Plan (Miko Revereza, 2019)
(Over the next few weeks, I'll be writing about films that are screening at the True/False Festival, th...
2019-02-11 01:11:16 +0000 UTC View PostPigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura, 1961)
Wow, this one's a doozie. I had forgotten just how much anarchic activity and social commentary Imamura...
2019-02-09 03:07:17 +0000 UTC View PostAnarchy vs Ennui: The Tiebreaker
The choice is yours:
You can get with this:
Or you can get with th...
2019-02-06 05:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostRotterdam (or Anywhere)
What should I watch next? One of these exciting new selections from IFFR, or a classic I haven't seen, or a new release?
2019-02-04 06:51:15 +0000 UTC View PostGone Fishin'
A Wild Stream (Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda, 2018)
Ashore (aka Terra Franca...
2019-02-04 04:34:02 +0000 UTC View PostPig (Mani Haghighi, 2018)
This film was my first extended exposure to Iranian independent Mani Haghighi. I say "extended," becaus...
2019-02-01 20:55:47 +0000 UTC View PostOur Time (Carlos Reygadas, 2018)
How to we distinguish between between art and real life? The Russian Formalist Victor Shklovsky argued ...
2019-01-31 20:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostAt Eternity's Gate (Julien Schnabel, 2018)
The real question here is, do we really need another film about the Vincent Van Gogh story? While there...
2019-01-30 15:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post