I wasn't sure if I wanted to revisit one of my all-time favorite films, Elio Petri's 1970 classic Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion in the age of Trump. But I am glad I did. If you haven't seen this, you really should, as it's...
LGM film club
I've been having my annual rewatch of some of my favorite films and enjoying it as much always. One film I watched that I hadn't seen in many years was.
Tomorrow is my birthday (51, wtf?) and every year around now, I spend like a month or so watching a bunch of my favorite movies. I really need it right.
One way to deal with the return of Trump is more film. I don't know when the last time was that I watched Spike Lee's 2000 film The Original Kings of Comedy, documenting the comedy tour hosted by Steve Harvey and including D.L. Hughley, Cedric...
I went back to one of my all-time favorites, Nicholas Ray's 1951 film On Dangerous Ground. It's not a perfect film by any means. But in the first half-hour, Robert.
We started 2025 in this series with Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, a brilliant, if messy, satire of modern Romania through the eyes of a teacher whose.
Last night, I watched Amalie Rothschild's 1972 documentary It Happens to Us, which is a series of interviews with women who underwent illegal abortions. After its release, Rothschild put a rolling screen at the beginning saying that despite Roe, this documentary is necessary so long...
Because I curate my film watching pretty carefully, I usually end up liking the films I watch. But it's always useful to discuss a film I didn't care for much..
I moved to Albuquerque 25 years ago this summer. Crazy. One of the first places I discovered there was Alpahville Video, your classic arty based movie rental store. It was.
Yasujiro Ozu is one of my favorite all-time directors, but I confess that I haven't watched many of his classic films in recent years. The only film I of his I watched last year was one I hadn't seen before, 1931's Tokyo Chorus, which is...
I've never really gotten the appeal of Jean Harlow. Every movie she was in centered around her beauty, but I don't get it. I also don't think she was a.
This wild 2021 film from the Romanian director Radu Jude is a glorious mess. The story is this--an award-winning teacher at an elite Bucharest private school films herself and her.