Afterwater (Dane Komljen, 2022)
A way-homer if ever there was one, Dane Komljen's second feature, commissioned by the Jeonju Cinema Project, is a bold film, a three-part tone poem about...
2023-06-10 05:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)
BY REQUEST: Daniel Waller
Second viewing, last seen on HBO probably in '96. It's a film I haven't thought all that much about sinc...
2023-06-09 05:52:29 +0000 UTC View PostIn Our Day (Hong Sang-soo, 2023)
Challenging one, this. In several respects it is one of Hong's most original films. Granted, it isn't shot almost entirely out of focus, like ...
2023-06-08 05:21:23 +0000 UTC View PostQueens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie, 2022)
One of last year's more acclaimed films, Ashley McKenzie's Queens of the Qing Dynasty is difficult, raw, and at times repellent. Tonally, and in...
2023-06-08 03:48:41 +0000 UTC View PostBlackBerry (Matt Johnson, 2023)
I always try to give my subscriber base their (your) money's worth. But every so often a film comes along that just makes next to no impressio...
2023-06-06 00:17:27 +0000 UTC View PostSubscriber Lotto: Double Yahtzee!
And here are the latest lucky winners!
#95: LUKE FOWLER
#29: DANIEL WALLER
#...
2023-06-05 04:59:31 +0000 UTC View PostMonica (Andrea Pallaoro, 2022)
There's a remarkable awkwardness running through Monica, the third feature film by Andrea Pallaoro. It's the sort of awkwardness more typical of...
2023-06-05 04:39:15 +0000 UTC View PostA Little More Cannes (InRO reviews)
Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio, 2023)
In many critics’ wrap-ups from Cannes, there was a dismissive attitude toward Ken Loach’s f...
2023-06-04 05:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostPossession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981)
BY REQUEST: Beatriz Rivas
Well, where to begin? For about half the running time of Possession, I thought I might be watch...
2023-06-03 23:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostA Word on [W/O]
I had a few minutes of downtime today, and I began thinking about [W/O]s. Now, this refers to a "walkout," a film that I watched at least a third of, but...
2023-05-28 03:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostCannes of Worms -- InRO Reviews
Légua (João Miller Guerra and Filipa Reis, 2023)
It’s been five years since Djon Africa, the last feature from the di...
2023-05-28 00:49:19 +0000 UTC View PostTwo Recent Experimental Films From South Korea
This Isn't What It Appears (Heehyun Choi, 2022)
BY REQUEST: David Dinnell
In these Patreon "pages" I have e...
2023-05-28 00:38:38 +0000 UTC View PostWe Are So Back
As we head into another IP Tentpole Summer, it's worth noting that Houston has quite a few things to see this weekend. In addition to catching up with
Mix-Up or Méli-Mélo (Françoise Romand, 1986)
BY REQUEST: T.J. Larson
Romand's French subtitle, méli-mélo, translates as hodgepodge or jumble, and that gives a sligh...
2023-05-18 23:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostWVLNT (Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have the Time) (Michael Snow, 2003)
I only just now got around to watching this. I think I'd unconsciously avoided it because I suspected it was little more than a conceptual jape, a dig at...
2023-05-18 22:23:39 +0000 UTC View PostSo Is This (Michael Snow, 1982)
Last seen June 2011. I had forgotten how enjoyable So Is This is, and not just because of Snow's clever self-reflexivity and goofy humor. A larg...
2023-05-18 05:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostWhich Colour? (Shahrukhkhan Chavada, 2023)
Which Colour? premiered earlier this year in Rotterdam, and I watched it because of the high praise it received from 2023-05-15 20:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Where (Tsai Ming-liang, 2022)
I mentioned Where in my Prismatic Ground wrap for Film Comment 2.0, but it seemed like it warranted a bit more discussion. Just barely eking in ...
2023-05-14 04:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostBeau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
I will admit right off the bat, I am glad this film exists, despite my deep ambivalence towards it. In an industry, to say nothing of a broade...
2023-05-14 03:04:21 +0000 UTC View PostA Brief Word About "Experiments in Cinema 18"
Due to final grades and other day-job obligations, I didn't get as much time to spend with the online Experiments in Cinema festival as I might have like...
2023-05-13 05:23:34 +0000 UTC View PostPrismatic Ground -- the rest, part two
NYC RGB (Viktoria Schmid, 2023)
Sometimes all you need is a simple idea expertly executed. Schmid's film is a lyrical symphony-fil...
2023-05-10 04:05:28 +0000 UTC View PostAnti-Cosmos (Takashi Makino, 2023)
I've been following Makino's very distinctive filmmaking for a number of years, although I certainly have many films to catch up with. I have heard other...
2023-05-10 03:28:58 +0000 UTC View PostPrismatic Ground -- the rest of it, part one
Promised Lands (Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, 2018)
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa was a Ugandan artist who'd spent the last several years based i...
2023-05-09 01:53:38 +0000 UTC View PostAbout Thirty (Martín Shanly, 2023)
Formalist comedies. Apparently they're still allowed, at least for now. Although About Thirty is organized as a character study, it's really mor...
2023-05-08 04:34:13 +0000 UTC View PostSubscribers' Choice: Next Three Selectors
It's time for the ol' number randomizer to do its thing once again.
Our next three selectors are:
#152: T.J. Larson
Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)
BY REQUEST: Ryan Wu
Lancelot du Lac is nowhere near my favorite Bresson. It wouldn't even be top five. But wat...
2023-05-08 02:27:55 +0000 UTC View PostPrismatic Ground reviews (from In Review Online)
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra de Mata, 2022)
Part of what’s so gr...
2023-05-08 01:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostStill Here
HI gang.
I haven't posted here for a minute, mostly because I have been mainlining the 2023 Prismatic Ground Film Festival. I have reviews of sever...
2023-05-03 21:14:25 +0000 UTC View PostShowing Up (Kelly Reichardt, 2022)
Is anything we see in Showing Up good art? I puzzled over this while watching Reichardt's film, and I found myself inclined to say no. Main char...
2023-04-27 02:24:15 +0000 UTC View PostBlack Shampoo (Greydon Clark, 1976)
BY REQUEST: Craig Lindsey
You're crazy for this one, Crizzle.
Black Shampoo is a startlingly amateur, low-budget Bl...
2023-04-24 02:16:29 +0000 UTC View Post