I've been watching quite a few films lately, but I've also been trying to write and I haven't gotten to the point of writing Film Club posts very often. Will try to work on that. One fascinating film I've seen recently is Love in the...
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Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles's 2019 film Bacurau is an absolutely brilliant horror-western that is a very lightly disguised allegory for life under Bolsonaro. Set in the "very near.
I had never seen any version of A Star is Born, including the recent one with Lady Gaga. The story is well known--girl wants to be famous in the entertainment.
OK........well, I had never seen Paul Mazursky's 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. In fact, I really knew nothing about it except for the classic image from it of all four of them naked in bed together and the understanding that it...
I am such a huge fan of Wong Kar Wai, well, at least until My Blueberry Nights. Everything from As Tears Go By in 1988 to 2046 in 2004 is.
I hadn't seen Tim Burton's (I realize Henry Selick is the actual director) The Nightmare Before Christmas in many years. But a 14 hour flight from Singapore to Vancouver and.
Criterion has had a Maurice Pialat series. I had never seen any of his films, so I checked out 1972 film We Won't Grow Old Together. It's an autobiographical film based on his own terrible relationships. Specifically, it looks at a director who is about...
Framed is a 1947 noir(ish) directed by Richard Wallace and starring Glenn Ford as a man entering a town who meets a woman who isn't what she seems. Fresh, I.
On Saturday, I had a 14 hour flight from Singapore to Vancouver and so that was a 5 movie flight. Mostly, I watched some old favorites. Air Canada has an.
Like every other Sergio Leone film, there's a lot in his magisterial masterpiece Once Upon a Time in America that makes no sense--how does Robert DeNiro know how to drive on his first job after 12 years in prison that took him from being a...
Pioneer Axe is a 1965 film by Peter Vogt demonstrating a dying way of life--high end, hand made axes in Oakland, Maine. Once an axe manufacturing center, this was the.
2012's Drug War is one of the more interesting films of Johnnie To. This film is about a meth ring and the cops who are determined to bust it. The.