I just finished grading a ton of term papers and research proposals, which has thrown me a bit behind on writing duties. But there is an ironic element to this since, while watching these two "elev...
2021-10-15 03:33:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Magnificently directed, beautifully acted, and driven by a score by Johnny Greenwood that thuds when yo...
2021-10-13 19:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs has been widely reported, The Year of the Everlasting Storm is a bit better than the average multi-director omnibus. This is all the more surprising since it is a project occasioned by ...
2021-10-13 05:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick note of apology. In addition to having spent a week at my parents' house, where it is not ...
2021-10-10 23:40:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Wishbone (Vincent Grenier, 2021)
Like Jodie Mack's Wasteland No. 3, Gre...
2021-10-07 00:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs I mentioned in my TIFF Wavelengths wrap-up, the pandemic has been an oddly productive time for the experimental film community. When one considers that certain festival showcases did not really ...
2021-10-06 02:19:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, that was me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation.
For years, I have paid...
2021-09-27 01:28:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In and Out a Window (Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, 2021)
Although the Current...
2021-09-23 21:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post
It took me a minute to figure out exactly what Périot is up to in this film, but maybe that's because ...
2021-09-23 17:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Grandma's Scissors (Erica Sheu, 2021)
Sheu's previous film Transcript w...
2021-09-21 03:22:42 +0000 UTC View PostAs I mentioned to a couple of friends, there is a weird trend with this year's Currents shorts. The majority of them -- 15 in total -- are 20 minutes or longer. Another eight are between 15 and 19 ...
2021-09-20 02:32:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I will be doing a write-up of some more of the NYFF Currents short films (and a couple of features, may...
2021-09-19 05:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Little Girl is a documentary about an eight-year-old trans girl struggling with bigotry and ig...
2021-09-18 02:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
SPOILERS, but you'll never see this anyway.
I suppose as fascism continues to ri...
2021-09-17 04:04:27 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot of major French directors, such as Olivier Assayas and Arnaud Desplechin, make a habit of hopping...
2021-09-16 22:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post
So MUBI ran my TIFF Wavelengths piece this morning. Way to catch the crest of festival fever!
For CINEMA SCOPE's 2021 TIFF Coverage:
In a lot of ways, Arthur Rambo i...
2021-09-14 17:25:13 +0000 UTC View Post
For CINEMA SCOPE's 2021 TIFF Coverage:
Terence Davies’ latest film focuses on ...
2021-09-14 02:43:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Another film that concludes with an emotionally repressed character dancing it out for all the...
2021-09-13 22:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It comes as no surprise that the shadow of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne hangs heavily over contemporary...
2021-09-13 04:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post
For CINEMA SCOPE's 2021 TIFF Coverage:
It’s spoiling nothing to mention that <...
2021-09-08 05:47:41 +0000 UTC View PostThese are significant new films that, for whatever reason, are not coming soon to a theater near you.
2021-09-05 17:44:15 +0000 UTC
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It's 1945, and the anxiety around World War II has turned everything, including courtship, into a race ...
2021-09-01 03:30:26 +0000 UTC View Post
First, the bad news. I will not complete the viewing of the oldies I selected for this month. I may yet...
2021-08-30 04:02:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Having finally caught up with the Archers towering canonical masterpiece, I'm going to have to cast my ...
2021-08-29 03:08:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In Flow of Words (Eliane Esther Bots, 2021)
In Flow of Words is an admi...
2021-08-27 02:51:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Between here and there is better than either here or...
2021-08-24 20:49:57 +0000 UTC View Post
As I mentioned on Letterboxd, this is less of a film in the conventional sense than a cinematic gesture...
2021-08-22 03:19:42 +0000 UTC View Post
