Ooh, this was a toughie. Every once and awhile someone asks me what film might be a good place to start exploring the work of Straub/Huillet, and I usual...
2019-06-25 22:42:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe critics and academics have gotten what we wanted, and now it's a Pyrrhic victory. After decades of decrying the God-like truth claims of standard, ...
2019-06-25 00:41:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Promising as a debut film, but mostly a trifle, this played Rotterdam and ACID and is the sort of film that you can typically expect to round out the Con...
2019-06-23 23:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Much silly comedy is wrung from the fact that Amy uses a stuffed panda instead of her hands to masturbate. But far more subversive from a kink standpoint...
2019-06-23 01:46:36 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the reasons I so admire Kevin Everson's films is the determinedly "minor" nature of his short works. Each of them seems to represent a snapshot of...
2019-06-22 19:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This might be a film emergency. You need to watch this, like, now.
Ken Jacobs has been working for years now on his current "Eternalism" method, wh...
2019-06-22 02:21:39 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the consistent joys of previewing the work included in the annual San Francisco Crossroads Festival is the inevitable discovery of new talent. But...
2019-06-20 02:25:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Of course it was a commission. How did I not see that?
At first I was quite taken with Emigholz's latest film, since, in a way, it struck ...
2019-06-19 21:16:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This article made be hungry for some 2019-06-18 03:15:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This will, alas, have to be a tentative evaluation, since the screener I watched was unusually substandard, and the film in question is one of particular...
2019-06-17 23:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
One of Heise's more purely observational films, Consequence is a 65-minute study of a crematorium. It is almost wordless. There are a few brief ...
2019-06-17 02:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Some artists, like Beatrice Gibson, get more interesting over time, partly because of developments in their work, but also because you learn to read thei...
2019-06-16 05:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
While I was a bit ambivalent, and even perplexed, by some earlier Gibson films (such as 2014's F For Fibonacci and 2015's Solo for Rich Man<...
2019-06-15 21:42:32 +0000 UTC View Post
More Harmony, less melody.
The Beach Bum is, in its own comically irritating way, a complete success when Korine and Matthew McConaghey wo...
2019-06-14 21:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I have to take a somewhat unexpected trip, so I will be out of pocket for a week. I am going to try to get at least one post up here while I'm on t...
2019-06-07 22:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This review contains minor spoilers. The tabula rasa types should steer clear. That means you, Mike. 2019-06-04 17:09:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the next few days, I am going to be prioritizing watching some of the 2019 films from Cannes that I now have access to. However, I also have a backl...
2019-06-02 21:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Never not interesting, Ferrara's take on the final days of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Willem Dafoe) nevertheless falls squarely into the "interesting failure" ...
2019-06-02 19:22:14 +0000 UTC View Post
On twitter earlier today, my homie 2019-05-28 03:13:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, remember when Guy Maddin delivered a full-on brother vs. brother melodrama in just under seven minutes?
That was awesome.
Now, I don't m...
2019-05-26 02:43:06 +0000 UTC View Post
While doing a little research on Suleiman's latest film It Must Be Heaven, I came across this early work I'd never seen. I was vaguely aware of ...
2019-05-25 00:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean really. Lars von Trier makes an admittedly stupid joke, and Thierry Fremaux throws him out of Cannes for seven years, but the festival happily rol...
2019-05-24 04:56:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This helped Kechiche secure some funding, but I guess auctioning off the Palme d'Or made up the rest. No matter: come Saturday, he'll have another!
2019-05-24 01:08:20 +0000 UTC View Post...subscribers, for the multiple postings. I have discovered, painfully, that Patreon is indeed not a blog, and goes well out of its way to protect the (perceived) proprietary rights of others. All I wanted to do was make a Cannes joke, b...
2019-05-24 00:17:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Ghanaian filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu is gradually building one of the most vital bodies of work in the so-called avant-garde. Like many of the best expe...
2019-05-22 04:22:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Amidst the various reviews and reports coming out of Cannes this year, I am noticing the lack of one specific, frequent lament. No one has claimed that any film in Un Certain Regard or the Quinzaine rightfully "belonged in Competition." Not the Bo...
2019-05-21 21:42:20 +0000 UTC View Post
What if, in a year with over a dozen serious contenders, they awarded the Queer Palme to Young Ahmed? I think you get where I'm coming from.
2019-05-21 16:02:32 +0000 UTC View Post
[NOTE: This is something of a subscribers-only preview, I guess, of part of my next article for Cinema Scope, which will be about Thomas Heise's document...
2019-05-21 04:54:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This jarringly experimental narrative film from a relative newcomer (this is only his second feature) marks Burak Cevik as someone to watch. Although, in...
2019-05-19 19:14:42 +0000 UTC View Post
There are films that I watched when they were new, and although I may have liked them well enough at the time, they didn't strike me as anything particul...
2019-05-19 05:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post