The Trouble With Angels
There’s always been a shortage of films coming out of Hollywood about female camaraderie. Even rarer are films about the friendships between women that don’t have some iteration of the… Read more »
Star 80
There are two things that really define Bob Fosse as a filmmaker to me. The first is his sense of montage whose rhythms and rhymes are as effective as they… Read more »
Tygrys
Jacob Chelkowski’s Tygrys (2015) is a film concerned with pornography. Porn’s lexicon of heteronormative images, the rituals of sexual performance, and the still taboo nature of kink are all at… Read more »
Danton
Andrzej Wajda’s Danton (1983) treats the political theater of the French Reign Of Terror as the Theater of Cruelty, condemning the oppression of the Polish Solidarity movement by the Soviet… Read more »
Thoroughbreds
Before directing Bad Education (2019), Cory Finley made quite the splash with Thoroughbreds (2017). Thoroughbreds was a sleeper hit, gaining notoriety over time by word of mouth. While it was… Read more »
A Perfect World
I have never been the biggest Clint Eastwood fan, particularly when it comes to the films he has directed. Eastwood’s style as a filmmaker is classical, intentionally recalling the films… Read more »
Downton Abbey
After a successful run on television Julian Fellowes brought his hit show to the big screen. The problem is that Downton Abbey (2019) as a film adds very little to… Read more »
Baby It’s You
Bruce Springsteen’s songs from his albums Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ through Born To Run tell the stories of teenagers, New Jersey youth, caught between the sixties and seventies. Springsteen… Read more »
Szerelmem, Elektra
Szerelmem, Elektra (1974) is a reinvention of the Greek myth Electra by filmmaker Miklós Jancsó. Jancsó continues to strip back the medium even more than his previous films, staging the… Read more »
Come Drink With Me
I first saw Legend Of The Mountain (1979) four years ago on a Masters Of Cinema Blu-Ray. It’s still the most visually stunning wuxia film I have ever seen. I… Read more »
