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
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
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
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
She lives in Astoria, but she works in the City. That means the company car picks her up long before the sun has a chance to crack the horizon. And like most administration assistants, she’s the first in, last out, … Continue reading THE ASSISTANT
The Second World War was fought on the land, in the air, and on the sea. And in the Atlantic Ocean, there is a space just out of range of Allied air forces. Here, only sea vessels go: “The Black … Continue reading GREYHOUND
It seems fitting that Other Music’s genesis can be traced to Kim’s Video. Both are institutions of a pre-digital era New York City; both functioned as fertile ground for 21st century indie artists: Alex Ross Perry and Sarah Adina Smith … Continue reading OTHER MUSIC
Every August, TCM breaks from its usual programming to deliver Summer Under the Stars, 31 days of 31 stars. Today belongs to Olivia de Havilland, who passed away on July 25, 2020 at the age of 104. Eleven de Havilland … Continue reading Olivia de Havilland on TCM
Movies echo movies. Sometimes in the minds of the filmmakers: Conversations in sound and image across time and space. Sometimes in the viewer’s minds: Stories ping-ponging their way through a couple of thousand years of recorded history. More often than … Continue reading AMERICAN BOY: A PROFILE OF STEVEN PRINCE
