June Director of the Month
I'll have at least one more Ray write-up (for The Big City), possibly another, before May is over. But now, let's set the agender for Pride Month.
2021-05-29 05:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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Betrayal (Lewis Milestone, 1929)
That feeling when you discover your wife with your best friend.....
2021-05-28 02:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostRoad to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2010)
Neither a disaster nor an auteurist triumph, Road to Nowhere tells us a few things about the c...
2021-05-27 22:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostDevi (Satyajit Ray, 1960)
Faith and reason, at it again. As is often the case in Ray's films, Devi provokes crucial ques...
2021-05-27 02:37:34 +0000 UTC View PostFinal Destination Canada (and more!)
Due to my short attention span recently, I have been watching a ton of public service announcements on ...
2021-05-26 01:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe Big Experimental Rundown (Part Two)
ABOVE: a pharmacist working at a Steenbeck
2021-05-26 00:41:11 +0000 UTC
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Madalena (Madiano Marchetti, 2021)
I had previously watched half an hour of Madalena during Rotterdam, and although it was certai...
2021-05-22 23:36:29 +0000 UTC View PostSlower Traffic Keep Right
Since I have not been producing writing as quickly or as often as I have been in the recent past, I fig...
2021-05-22 01:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Big Experimental Run-Down (Part One)
Despite the fact that avant-garde film and video are sort of my bailiwick, I've been spending much of m...
2021-05-18 03:40:51 +0000 UTC View PostGull (Kim Mi-jo, 2020)
Gull is a rather simple film, although its depiction of the aftermath of sexual assault is und...
2021-05-17 21:21:12 +0000 UTC View PostAparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1956)
Considering Aparajito in relation to Pather Panchali, I began having significant doub...
2021-05-16 05:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe Killing of Two Lovers (Robert Machoian, 2020)
The Killing of Two Lovers is a film that focuses most of its attention on things that don'...
2021-05-15 17:30:50 +0000 UTC View PostMoon, 66 Questions (Jacqueline Lentzou, 2021)
As has been the case with several of this year's New Directors / New Films selections, Moon, 66 Que...
2021-05-14 04:55:18 +0000 UTC View PostAn Enemy of the People (Satyajit Ray, 1989)
There are a few particularly interesting things about Ray's take on Ibsen. First, until about a year ag...
2021-05-14 01:19:56 +0000 UTC View PostFaya Dayi (Jessica Beshir, 2021)
This is a uniquely frustrating documentary, because it has so much potential. First-time director ...
2021-05-13 23:16:47 +0000 UTC View PostPather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
As I've addressed here and on other forums, I had no direct exposure to the Official Film Canon as such...
2021-05-09 21:54:10 +0000 UTC View PostDownstream to Kinshasa (Dieudo Hamadi, 2020)
In recent years, the documentaries of the DRC's Dieudo Hamadi have started receiving more recognition i...
2021-05-05 23:27:47 +0000 UTC View PostComedy Corner (workshop material)
Konstantin Chernenko and Pope John Paul I walk into a bar. "One vodka and one cabernet," Chernenko announces, but the bartender points to two gentlemen on stools. "They're already having your drink...
2021-05-05 23:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostFilm About a Father Who (Lynne Sachs, 2020)
This is a difficult film to evaluate. It's the latest in a recent spate of auto-portraits of filmmakers...
2021-05-04 21:57:25 +0000 UTC View PostWood and Water (Jonas Bak, 2021)
Clocking in at a lean 80 minutes, Wood and Water is one of those films that gets so much right...
2021-05-03 02:48:25 +0000 UTC View PostSleepwalk (Sara Driver, 1986)
I did not care for this movie. But it has undeniable significance as an artifact.
I'm probably in...
2021-05-01 06:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostMask ON! Lights DOWN! Roll FILM!
I do believe that Zhang Yimou is going to lure me back into the theater. I don't know who this Cliff Wa...
2021-04-30 23:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostShadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
I decided to close out Hitchcock Month with Shadow of a Doubt mostly because I read that it wa...
2021-04-30 18:14:16 +0000 UTC View PostFixing a Hole
Hello, friends.
I am writing this quick note to "put out feelers" on a topic of no real importanc...
2021-04-30 00:09:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)
"There is definitely something queer on this train..."
I don't know that I have a great ...
2021-04-29 18:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostRebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
And it is here that the exactitude of Hitchcock's filmmaking runs up against the intractability of my p...
2021-04-26 09:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
But Wait! There's Moor!
The Tragedy of Othello -- the Moor of Venice (Orson Welles, 1951)
First of all, ...
2021-04-24 03:34:44 +0000 UTC View PostNorth by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
North by Northwest: a review by Michael Sicinski
[AB...
2021-04-21 03:26:36 +0000 UTC View PostRifkin's Festival (Woody Allen, 2020)
First things first. I'd kind of sworn off Woody Allen, for the obvious reasons. Even if we don't know p...
2021-04-19 02:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post