In the off hours, I've tried to stay busy, but often this has meant a lot of projects begun with the best of intentions that have proven destined to remain half-finished. Recently, I thought I would attempt to construct a crossword puzzle, mostly ...
2020-04-14 11:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Bruce Baillie: consummate filmmaker of the West Coast avant-garde. Co-founder of Canyon Cinema. Instigator of what would become SF Cinematheque. We know ...
2020-04-11 05:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS.
Above is a still from the first shot of Tsai Ming-liang's latest film, his first feature in seven y...
2020-04-09 11:02:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It's strange. It seems patently obvious that Denis Côté is the most consistently interesting director currently working in French Canadian cinema, but ...
2020-04-09 02:20:15 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS.
Destined to go down in the Wacky Title Hall of Fame, alongside Teenage Hooker Became Kill...
2020-04-04 04:18:18 +0000 UTC View Post
As a special presentation during these days of international lockdown, filmmaker / artist Zia Anger has been recently conducting live streams of her film...
2020-04-03 23:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Signal 8 (Simon Liu, 2019)
Simon Liu's films are characterized by a tactility that lands somewhere between the grungy and the ethe...
2020-03-31 21:40:44 +0000 UTC View Post
SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW.
I understand why so many critics are impressed with The Invisible Man. There's a lot that's impress...
2020-03-30 00:34:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As Guzmán states in the voiceover of his latest essay film, this is the twentieth film he has made about his native Chile, most of them having been made...
2020-03-27 22:39:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Sadly, thanks to the unmatched global distribution of COVID-19, there will most likely be no 2020 Cannes Film Festival. When you consider that Cannes is ...
2020-03-26 23:52:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the second feature, and the first fiction work, from Galician auteur Lois Patiño, whose short film Night Without Distance, from 2015, w...
2020-03-24 02:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sky Hopinka is a fascinating filmmaker for a number of reasons. Not only is he one of the most prominent experimental filmmakers of the moment; he is als...
2020-03-19 00:10:44 +0000 UTC View Post
It's just been a bit crazy, you know?
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2020-03-18 17:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Although this film has certain specific points of reference -- I'll get to that in a minute -- there is something rather singular in the way it is assemb...
2020-03-14 23:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Honestly, I'm not going to pretend that I understand film distribution anymore. Here's a film that was very successful in its native Germany, won the (no...
2020-03-06 22:31:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Romanian director Radu Jude's previous film, "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians" (quotations marks are part of the official t...
2020-03-06 08:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In French, the word for photographic developer -- the chemical itself -- is révélateur, which is a reminder of the power contained within what...
2020-03-06 02:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome (Andrew Norman Wilson, 2019)
I enjoyed this structuralist mini-narrative quite a b...
2020-03-02 05:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Although Marina de Van has made two feature films in the interim, it feels very much like her latest, My Nudity Means Nothing, is a conceptual f...
2020-03-01 20:33:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Although I am sure to see films this year that are somewhat better than The Wolf House, I will be quite surprised if I see one that is as unique...
2020-03-01 06:31:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In Bart Testa's essay on Jack Chambers' experimental classic The Hart of London, he compares the film to two other feature-length Canadian avant...
2020-02-27 04:51:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Filmmaker Bette Gordon is probably best known for her 1983 feature film Variety, an experimental narrative from New York's Downtown scene that actually attained some commercial and critical traction. Focused on a young woman (Sandy McLeod...
2020-02-27 01:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been on the fence about this guy for a while now. I thought his second film Rubber was a clever bit of deadpan surrealism, and I appreciate...
2020-02-17 07:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
No, I didn't forget. But my review of Beanpole will be in the next issue of Cinema Scope. Here's a sample sentence:
" Shot through with a ...
2020-02-12 22:27:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know Bellocchio's work as well as I should, having seen only four of his films to date. However, the other three films of his I've seen -- My...
2020-02-12 22:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post
What a dazzler. Chytilová's fifth feature, and her follow-up to her stone masterpiece Daisies, Fruit of Paradise actually played in co...
2020-02-07 23:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Miss Americana (Lana Wilson, 2020)
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2019)...
2020-02-07 18:08:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This lovely short film (just under 30 minutes) is a poetic study of the titular port city in Chile, and it's an instance where physical geography lends i...
2020-01-31 21:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I run hot and cold with Loznitsa. He pretty much make three different kinds of films: narrative fiction films, contemporary documentaries, and archival f...
2020-01-30 23:20:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Much to my surprise, I ended up quite liking Midsommar. I don't want to give too much credence to this dodgy "elevated horror" concept, but I th...
2020-01-28 21:23:24 +0000 UTC View Post