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Martin Eden is one of the best movies I’ve seen this year, and it got me thinking about one of the best movies I saw last year: Transit. Christian Petzold is one of those directors who has my number, and his latest, Undine, … Continue reading TRANSIT
One of the best movies of the year and one of the best re-discoveries of the last five years. Too much good stuff in this week’s Weekly. First up, Martin Eden (playing virtual theaters now, and some select theaters next … Continue reading This week in Film — MARTIN EDEN and Kelly Sears on BORN IN FLAMES
It’s going to be virtual (not a surprise), but it’s going to be longer and cheaper (surprise). It’s the 43rd Denver Film Festival and it kicks off Oct. 22: This year’s heavy hitters: Minari, the story of a Korean-American family searching … Continue reading This week in Film — DFF43 and HOMELAND OF ELECTRICITY
For 50 years, Agnès Varda lived on Paris’ Rue Daguerre, a quiet street of merchants not far from Montparnasse. She saw the men and women (mostly husbands and wives) who ran the shops, cut the hair, baked the bread, and … Continue reading DAGUERRÉOTYPES
Movie theaters are closing back down, studios are rolling back release dates (or moving titles to streaming), and WarnerMedia is getting ready to cut thousands of jobs. Things do not look good. Thankfully, home viewing options remain robust, particularly this … Continue reading This week in Film — RAFIKI, THE GUNFIGHTER, and PIERROT LE FOU
Boulder-based filmmaker Jeff Orlowski has a new documentary out on Netflix, The Social Dilemma, about the tech industry—specifically the companies associated with social media. You can probably guess the topics of interest: Undermined democratic processes and the rise of conspiracy theories … Continue reading CHASING CORAL
It’s a double shot of Kirsten Johnson on your TV screens. First up, her latest doc, now playing on Netflix, Dick Johnson Is Dead: Dick Johnson isn’t dead. Not yet, at least. But he will be. We all will, sooner … Continue reading This week in Film — DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD and CAMERAPERSON
Cinematographer Michael Chapman died on Sept. 20, 2020. He was 84. We hadn’t heard or seen much of Chapman recently (his last credit was Bridge to Terabithia in 2007), but Chapman was king in the 1970s and ’80s. Chapman’s first credit as … Continue reading TAXI DRIVER
The Argentinian filmmaker, Lucrecia Martel, knows a thing or two about heat. Hot, sweltering heat. It suffocates every frame of her debut La cinéaga (2001)—a spectacular film that also happens to terribly unsettling to watch—and it practically steams the lens in Zama, her … Continue reading ZAMA
As the 2020 election heats up, three docs with a political bent and three discoveries from the World Cinema Project. First, what’s new: Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, All In: The Fight For Democracy, and Public Trust: When George … Continue reading This week in Film — political docs and Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3
