The Year Was 1972......
Goldwater was in the White House. America's young men were being sent to Algeria to execute a dying col...
2022-01-11 02:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Happening (Audrey Diwan, 2021)
Need it be said? Happening, this year's Golden Lion winner and the sophomore feature from Audr...
2022-01-09 20:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostJanie's Janie (Geri Ashur / Newsreel Collective, 1971)
This is a film I always meant to catch up with, mostly because I have been reading about it in passing ...
2022-01-08 01:33:40 +0000 UTC View PostA River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Shengze Zhu, 2021)
It's sometimes the case that a given artwork takes on more meaning that it might have originally becaus...
2022-01-07 22:36:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhat Do We See When We Look At the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze, 2021)
While there's no question that Koberidze's second feature film is one of the most formally accomplished...
2022-01-06 19:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostI'm 50!
And I can KICK! And STRETCH! And KICK!
Okay, now that the year-end crunch is winding down -- stil...
2022-01-04 17:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostLast Few Viewings of 2021 (part two)
Labyrinth of Cinema (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 2019)
A film so ambitious in scope that...
2022-01-03 06:41:13 +0000 UTC View PostLast Few Viewings of 2021 (part one)
North by Current (Angelo Madsen Minax, 2021)
Minax's deeply humane documentary a...
2022-01-02 22:14:14 +0000 UTC View PostYear-End Lightning Hoedown No. 6
"I just thought I'd do a little hoedown."
2021-12-28 01:29:39 +0000 UTC
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⚡Lightning 〇Round 5
Outside Noise (Ted Fendt, 2021)
As I suggested on Twitter, I admire Ted Fendt's ...
2021-12-27 05:09:07 +0000 UTC View PostLightning Round 4
Although "lightning" may not be the best adjective here. I'm still finding it hard to view movies, as t...
2021-12-22 22:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostYear-End Lighning Round #3
I do want to apologize, not just for the highly infrequent posting, but for the shoddy viewing as well. There's just too much going on, and I can only work in brief spurts.
2021-12-19 20:03:04 +0000 UTC
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Drive, or Remain Parked?
I need your help regarding the apparent Film of the Year.
Should I:
2021-12-13 17:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostYear-End Lightning Round (Part 2)
Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021)
One would have to be heartless not to be affe...
2021-12-11 11:00:46 +0000 UTC View PostYear-End Poll: Lightning Round, Part 1 (updated)
Passing (Rebecca Hall, 2021)
This adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel is cer...
2021-12-08 23:27:07 +0000 UTC View PostPutting It Together
(Stephen Sondheim, RIP)
It's been a busy couple of months, and I very much appreciate your patien...
2021-12-06 07:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostCatastrophe, Minimal and Maximal
The Night (Tsai Ming-liang, 2021)
The English title of Tsai's latest experimenta...
2021-11-26 00:48:55 +0000 UTC View PostMemoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)
Q: What if the machine kicked back?
I've needed some time to think about Memoria 2021-11-21 04:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The Scary of Sixty-First (Dasha Nekrasova, 2021)
It's hopeless, really. If I were to actually take the time to articulate how stupid this is, I'd be fal...
2021-11-20 04:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostJane by Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg, 2021)
Hovering in the distance of Gainsbourg's portrait of her mother Jane Birkin is an earlier film, Agnès ...
2021-11-17 05:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostFlag Day (Sean Penn, 2021)
Cannes sure does distort things, huh? Penn's last directorial outing, The Last Face, was god-a...
2021-11-14 02:21:43 +0000 UTC View PostProto-Vines: an Inquiry
I spend a bit of time on TikTok, mostly so I can keep minimally abreast of my son's cultural life. I find it occasionally amusing, but as a platform it's extremely circumscribed. I'm not referring ...
2021-11-11 22:12:28 +0000 UTC View PostDune (Denis Villeneuve, 2021)
I will freely admit that I am not the target audience for Dune. It's not just that I'm not a g...
2021-11-10 02:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostMemories? Call 1-800-GOT-JUNK
Tonight, I was catching up with We (or Nous, if you prefer), the documentary by Alice...
2021-11-03 04:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes, 2021)
I'm very glad indeed that Haynes' The Velvet Underground exists. It's an admirable attempt at ...
2021-11-02 01:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe Beta Test (Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe, 2021)
Cummings' debut feature Thunder Road was quite the opening salvo, a film defined by...
2021-10-31 00:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostOne Second (Zhang Yimou, 2020)
This is hard to really evaluate, of course, because it arrives as damaged goods. The PRC engages in cen...
2021-10-26 21:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostChecking In
So obviously there hasn't been much action here. If you check in occasionally with my Films Seen lists ...
2021-10-25 22:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostDelphine's Prayers (Rosine Mbakam, 2021)
Mbakam's latest documentary is essentially a portrait film, and as such probably bears comparison with ...
2021-10-19 04:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Crusade (Louis Garrel, 2021)
The Crusade is the final cinematic project of Jean-Claude Carrière, which is both odd and poi...
2021-10-19 04:17:15 +0000 UTC View Post