The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen, 2021)
"It's the Scottish play, whaddya need, a roadmap?"
Joel Coen's take on Macbeth was one o...
2022-05-05 23:45:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sundown (Michel Franco, 2021)
While watching Sundown, I was convinced for about ...
2022-05-03 19:19:47 +0000 UTC View PostFlash Poll: Wrapping 2021
Now that the semester is over, I want to prioritize finishing off the major films from last year. As pe...
2022-05-03 12:30:31 +0000 UTC View PostElectra, My Love (Miklós Jancsó, 1974)
This appears to be the point at which Jancsó descends into silliness, but Electra, My Love is...
2022-05-02 16:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostSilence and Cry (Miklós Jancsó, 1968)
Interiors!
With Silence and Cry, it seems Jancsó was trying something different, and th...
2022-05-02 04:17:52 +0000 UTC View PostRed Psalm (Miklós Jancsó, 1972)
Happy May Day!
While Red Psalm is a far cry from the triumph of The Red and the Whit...
2022-05-01 21:11:56 +0000 UTC View PostMay Poll
We are not quite done with Jancsó. But let's go on and set the course for the merry, merry month of Ma...
2022-05-01 04:53:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)
Often, the great modernists were forced to devise a new formal approach to their art in order to fully ...
2022-05-01 01:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostPutting It Together: Two Avant-Garde Films
The Red Thread (Larry Gottheim, 1987)
Thanks to...
2022-04-25 04:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostIntimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (Chor Yuen, 1972)
In 2013, avant-garde filmmaker Shambhavi Kaul produced a short film called Mount Song. It cons...
2022-04-25 02:54:24 +0000 UTC View PostRobe of Gems (Natalia López Gallardo, 2022)
If you are not familiar with the work of Natalia López Gallardo, the opening sequence of Robe of G...
2022-04-24 23:48:29 +0000 UTC View PostFabian: Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf, 2021)
Nothing in Dominik Graf's latest film is as exciting as its first ten minutes. In the opening sequence ...
2022-04-21 19:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostFeathers (Omar El Zohairy, 2021)
Based on the little bit I'd read about Feathers (the 2021 Cannes Critics' Week winner), I expe...
2022-04-18 02:47:59 +0000 UTC View PostA Couple of Recent Views
Grandma's House (Sophy Romvari, 2018)
I watched this, along with the somewhat mo...
2022-04-16 04:36:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm (Morgan Fisher, 1973)
Morgan Fisher is an unusual figure in experimental cinema. While his work is clearly aligned with the c...
2022-04-16 02:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostVariations on a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer, 1970)
This is a bit of classic as far as Canadian structural film goes, although it isn't shown all that much...
2022-04-13 21:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostAgnus Dei (Miklós Jancsó, 1971)
Obviously it's a bit premature to make any grand declarations about Jancsó, seeing as I've only seen t...
2022-04-13 16:43:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe City and the City (Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas, 2022)
A film that is far more interesting than successful, The City and the City more than lives dow...
2022-04-11 04:21:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1966)
The first of Jancsó's films to really break through in the West, The Round-Up seems to sugges...
2022-04-10 23:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose, 2021)
Often we follow filmmakers who show continued promise, but for whatever reason are unable to bring thei...
2022-04-09 03:21:44 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the Yawn Show
Miklós Jancsó, that is! The Hungarian master, who shone brightly in the 60s and 70s, fell ou...
2022-04-09 02:35:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In Reverse
So I've been swamped with work this semester, and I am not getting to write as much here as I'd like to...
2022-04-06 02:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe Novelist's Film (Hong Sangsoo, 2022)
Once again giving the lie to the common claim that all Hong films are the same, The Novelist's Film...
2022-04-03 22:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostAzor (Andreas Fontana, 2021)
One of 2021's standout debut films, Azor is a meticulous and frustrating experience. Loosely p...
2022-03-31 04:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostMaster (Mariama Diallo, 2022)
[NOTE: This review contains spoilers.]
In his review for the 2014 comedy Let's Be ...
2022-03-26 01:51:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982)
There's no getting around the historical importance of Losing Ground, it being the sec...
2022-03-19 03:20:49 +0000 UTC View PostThree Floors (Nanni Moretti, 2021)
Moretti's latest is bizarre. The film hurtles from incident to incident, almost as if an entire season ...
2022-03-18 05:13:28 +0000 UTC View PostLingui (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2021)
Chad's leading auteur -- perhaps the country's only regularly working director -- has never been known ...
2022-03-15 19:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post