Pedestrian At Best (Part One)
In my recent podcast discussion with the Great Peter Labuza (coming soon to an Internet near you), the prospec...
2018-11-13 00:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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Thunder Road (Jim Cummings, 2018)
I suppose in retrospect it makes sense that this was a short film first. The funeral is, indeed, a showstoppin...
2018-11-06 18:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post9 Fingers (FJ Ossang, 2017)
Apart from a couple of very stylish short films, this is my first engagement with "punk" filmmaker FJ Ossang. ...
2018-11-04 17:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostA Family Tour (Ying Liang, 2018)
In the midst of its scathing critique of the repressive government of the People's Republic of China, a totali...
2018-11-03 04:16:23 +0000 UTC View PostCold War (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018)
Practically from the jump, there was no question that Cold War was one of the best directed and (perh...
2018-11-02 01:52:08 +0000 UTC View Postnot an entry on Aurora Borealis (Márta Mészáros, 2017)
I tried to watch this film, but it was a ghastly flavor of Europudding. It soon became clear that it was yet a...
2018-10-30 01:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostAsh is Purest White (Jia Zhangke, 2018)
There are times when I feel a bit out of my depth with respect to a given film, and yet of course, despite thi...
2018-10-28 21:16:26 +0000 UTC View PostCinderella (Ericka Beckman, 1986)
On the web page for this film...
2018-10-27 15:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostLife After Love (Zachary Epcar, 2018)
The scene, as far as I can tell, is a parking lot beneath a BART station at twilight, a kind of stationary urb...
2018-10-26 23:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAn observation...
Thus far, I have 37 patrons. That's great! Thank you all so much.
Oddly enough, that's 36 men and one woman.
I'm not sure if that says something about the current economy, about film cri...
2018-10-23 05:14:27 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the Notebook of... (Robert Beavers, 1971/1998)
First, a word about the double date. Many of Beavers' films have two dates of completion, because he finished ...
2018-10-23 04:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostExtreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Kazuo Hara, 1974)
This is a film I'd been meaning to see for years, and I finally got around to it, now that I am doing research...
2018-10-23 04:15:33 +0000 UTC View PostMirror (Robert Morris, 1969)
Among the original group of minimalists, Robert Morris was probably the closest to a bridge figure between the...
2018-10-21 21:53:09 +0000 UTC View PostField (Ernie Gehr, 1970)
Through the kind assistance of Mr. James Hansen, I was able to finally see one of the few classic Ernie Gehr f...
2018-10-21 18:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostA Season in France (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2017)
Some films grab you immediately. In the first five minutes of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's latest film -- his first ...
2018-10-20 02:10:48 +0000 UTC View PostDiary Films: a course-to-be
Next semester I am teaching a couse called "The Diaristic Mode in Film and Video." I a currently working to compile films to include in the syllabus, and there is a pretty wide array, although I worry...
2018-10-19 09:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostWishing Well (Sylvia Schedelbauer, 2018)
I am a fan of Schedelbauer's work. Although there have been hundreds of "flicker films" and found footage film...
2018-10-18 18:30:40 +0000 UTC View PostBarbara (Mathieu Amalric, 2017)
There are many international films that are so specific to their national culture and mythology that they simp...
2018-10-18 18:04:51 +0000 UTC View Post