Populaire is set in the high-stakes world of competitive speed typing. Yes, you read that right, competitive speed typing. This is France in 1958, and any competition, any activity that might distract the mind from dwelling too long on the recent … Continue reading POPULAIRE
Enough Said is not a flashy piece of cinema designed to captivate and intrigue. Nor is it the type of movie where actors are given a lot of room to chew the furniture and hit all those notes. It does not … Continue reading ENOUGH SAID
Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn’t. Seventy years ago there were men like D.W. Griffith and seventy years later—now—there are not many men like Martin … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 30
I don’t know anything about the way a film is born, nothing about the manner of it, the lying-in, the ‘big bang’, the first three minutes. Whether the images in those first three minutes are born out of their author’s … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 29
Salinger is the new documentary from Shane Salerno that attempts to recreate the life of novelist J.D. Salinger. That is a difficult proposition considering that Salinger wasn’t keen on others knowing his personal life, was famously reclusive, and left the public … Continue reading SALINGER
Short Term 12 derives its name from the place of business where the characters work. Short Term 12 is a halfway house of sorts for juvenile delinquents assigned there while the courts and families figure out what to do with them. … Continue reading SHORT TERM 12
I want to direct films that no one else is going to make. I know if I don’t make them, I’m never going to see them. Of course, I hope some people will want to see my movies as well, … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 28
A film is not a spectacle, it is in the first place a style. —Robert Bresson Continue reading Born On This Day — September 25
Thanks for Sharing begins with a man praying before breakfast. Next, he is seated at the breakfast table, almost in the same prayer position as before. Filmed from overhead, we see his watch, tie, and belt laid out before him in … Continue reading THANKS FOR SHARING
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