Last Year At Marienbad
French Spiritualist philosopher Henri Bergson outlined two types of human memory. The first is Motor Mechanism, when a person purposefully memorizes a text or moment. The second is involuntary memory,… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Dillinger
Hot on the heels of Arthur Penn’s Bonnie & Clyde (1967), Dillinger follows the formula almost exactly. The main difference is in the style of Milius’ telling of John Dillinger’s story. Milius colors… Read more »
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Leos Carax’s film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) is pure Romanticism, as naïve as it is visually stunning, often suspending all believability and reality in favor of sequences that are representative… Read more »
A Bear Named Winnie
If COVID-19 or police oppression has got you down and you’re in need of some frivolous escapism, if you find yourself in the mood for a saccharine adventure film, look… Read more »
The Black Panthers
I don’t know if I liked The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) as much as I liked Jonestown: The Life & Death of The People’s Temple (2006). Stanley… Read more »
Fando Y Lis
Intuition is responsible for a majority of the most fascinating works of art ever created. Throughout the ages artists have made decisions concerning their work in direct response to their… Read more »
Trois couleurs: Bleu
I am not going to comment on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Bleu in the greater context of Les Trois Couleurs. I prefer to assess one film at a time as a stand alone piece… Read more »
The Big Trail
“Give a man a free hand and he’ll try to put it all over you.”-Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh is one of the big names in studio-era Westerns, often appearing alongside… Read more »
The Freethinker
Peter Watkins made a career out of deconstructing genres, employing reflexive tactics, advocating a freer media, and reinterpreting film language with a number of groundbreaking and epically experimental films. In… Read more »
Rendez-vous
Rendez-vous (1986) is relatively early in both Juliette Binoche and Andre Téchiné’s careers. Binoche had yet to develop the kind of kinetic energy she would while working with Leos Carax… Read more »
