Clik here to view.
Lincoln (2012, Steven Spielberg)
“You know what the people are. You know that the inner compass that should direct the soul towards justice has ossified in white men and women … White people cannot bear the thought of sharing this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)
“Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?” Brilliant visual display of espionage, duplicity, politics and memory (real and false), with at least five perfect performances, but the one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
Catching up… I watched this three weeks ago, and the only note I took says: Unfun intellectual/political word games Obviously it’s a complicated (if unfun) movie, so a one-line review will not do. This...
View ArticleKinshasa Makambo (2018, Dieudo Hamadi)
After a light opening scene, we’re suddenly plunged into a street protest that turns violent, in high-color, stuttery shaky-cam. The filmmaker follows protests against Congo’s presidential government...
View ArticleThe Party (2017, Sally Potter)
The Party is a small private party held for political party member Kristin Scott Thomas, just appointed (elected?) minister of health – so I thought there’d be more political stuff, but if so, I missed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seeking the Monkey King (2011, Ken Jacobs)
A superb effect, mountains and fields of crinkled foil surrounding us in 3D, rapidly rotating and expanding, but never getting anywhere, the constant strobing of color inversions masking the loop point...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shorts watched December 2020
ExtaZus (2019, Bertrand Mandico) 1. The sword-wielding, red-haired Nirvana Queen, tastes a crystalline rock in front of the orally-attached twins, awakens in a green world surrounded by crystal-headed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Homecoming (2005, Joe Dante)
“They told us there was a threat to America, but the weapons of mass destruction weren’t there.” I survived an endless difficult work day, and learned that Donald Rumsfeld had died, so this felt like...
View ArticleIn the Same Breath (2021, Nanfu Wang)
We don’t wanna sit around watching covid docs, but after her last movie, we trusted Nanfu Wang to make a good one. The initial hook is her Chinese/American family getting caught a world apart when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inventing the Future (2020, Isiah Medina)
“Such protests are registered only in the minds of their participants, bypassing any transformation of social structure.” Dense sentences on voiceover with dense images flickering by. When it switched...
View Article
