Subscriber Lottery: "Winners"
So most likely tomorrow I will watch the remaining request from the last subscriber tombola. That would...
2023-07-28 06:21:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach, 2014)
Maybe I like minor Loach, when he and Paul Laverty are not trying to hard to make a statement and are c...
2023-07-28 02:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostWelfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975)
BY REQUEST: John Powers
Aside from a few shots that follow clerks "upstairs" to ...
2023-07-26 17:52:33 +0000 UTC View PostSee You Friday, Robinson (Mitra Farahani, 2022)
One of the most disarming aspects of See You Friday, Robinson is the portrait it provides of o...
2023-07-26 04:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostScarlet (Pietro Marcello, 2022)
After seeing three of his earlier films, Pietro Marcello finally made sense to me with Martin Eden<...
2023-07-24 19:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostAsteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)
I changed my mind just a bit on this one, going back and watching a few key scenes after I'd come away ...
2023-07-24 03:22:30 +0000 UTC View Post...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (José Antonio Sistiaga, 1970)
I was moved to finally watch this acknowledged experimental masterwork because its maker, the Basque ar...
2023-07-21 03:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostA Kitten For Hitler (Ken Russell, 2007)
A brief note about A Kitten For Hitler, which I watched out of perverse curiosity. Word is tha...
2023-07-19 03:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostTchaikovsky's Wife (Kirill Serebrennikov, 2022)
It feels like I've been seeing an inordinate amount of this guy's films lately, but hey, blame Thierry ...
2023-07-19 03:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostCave Painting (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 2023)
A bit of context for the uninitiated. Siegfried Fruhauf might best be characterized as a B-player in th...
2023-07-16 05:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostFour Nights (Scout Tafoya, 2023)
BY REQUEST: Scout Tafoya
Dear Scout,
Please excuse the possibly cloying ap...
2023-07-15 03:42:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grind Don't Stop
If you ever check my viewing logs on The Academic Hack, you'll know that I have been mainlining recent ...
2023-07-13 02:34:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (Pierre Clémenti, 1986)
BY REQUEST: AR
-Basements were recently my thing. Do you know what I found? ...
2023-07-07 04:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostA Conundrum
What would you write about if an editor offered you the chance to write about anything you wanted to? I...
2023-07-07 03:25:11 +0000 UTC View PostSubscriber Lottery: Fast Forward Selecta!
Side note: isn't it weird that the Unilever ice creams have, like, twenty different brand names? Theore...
2023-07-03 04:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostDRIB (Kristoffer Borgli, 2017)
BY REQUEST: Emilio
It's fitting that as Kristoffer Borgli's newest film Sick...
2023-07-02 05:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostMatter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2022)
I have been a fairly consistent champion of the documentaries of Nikolaus Geyrhalter. He is an Austrian...
2023-06-30 02:46:18 +0000 UTC View PostNEKO-MIMI (Jun Kurosawa, 1993)
BY REQUEST: Kevin Wall
We all have our aesthetic biases. It's unavoidable. The o...
2023-06-28 00:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostPacifiction (Albert Serra, 2022)
In many respects a radical shift for Albert Serra, Pacifiction is about history and delusion, ...
2023-06-26 20:52:14 +0000 UTC View PostGodland (Hlynur Pálmason, 2022)
A title card at the beginning of the film informs us that it was inspired by a set of late-19th century...
2023-06-25 22:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe Wall of the Dead (Eugène Green, 2022)
Eugène Green's latest film begins with a quote from St. Augustine, relating to the nature of time. The...
2023-06-24 19:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostSubscriber Lottery Results
These three subscribers have gotten the short straws. Or the long ones. Depends on how you look at it.<...
2023-06-23 06:21:44 +0000 UTC View PostHello, It's Me! (Frunze Dovlatya, 1966)
BY REQUEST: Daniel Wood
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A Thousand and One (A. V. Rockwell, 2023)
If you follow my writing (which presumably you do, to some extent), you know I have a few hobby-horses ...
2023-06-22 00:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, and Kemp Powers, 2023)
Another of the handful of sequels that actually improves upon its predecessor, Across the Spider-Ve...
2023-06-21 03:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostPetrov's Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov, 2021)
If proof were needed that I can never leave well enough alone, I decided -- felt obliged, really -- to ...
2023-06-21 01:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostToo Late (Dennis Hauck, 2015)
BY REQUEST: Luke Fowler
See, this is why I think this subscriber-request lottery...
2023-06-18 06:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, and Bob Persichetti, 2018)
I'm sure this will come as a surprise, but I am not a devotee of the Marvel Cinematic Univer...
2023-06-16 18:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post¡Que Color!
Sorry for the inactivity, but man alive, it has been too hot to move, think, or write. The AC can only ...
2023-06-16 03:42:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Eight Mountains (Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2022)
While watching The Eight Mountains, more than once I thought about Brokeback Mountain...
2023-06-13 04:37:10 +0000 UTC View Post