Tenet opens not with a bang, but with an explosion. Chaos coordinated with cinematic clarity courtesy Christopher Nolan. The setting is a concert hall—packed to the rafters with people. The orchestra tunes, the doors close, and the bad guys enter: terrorists … Continue reading TENET
On Tuesday, Sept. 15, TCM’s 14-week series, Women Make Film, continues with a line-up of seven films and a thematic focus on conversation, framing and tracking. Two not to miss are Zero Motivation from Israeli filmmaker Talya Lavie, and a … Continue reading Home Viewing: ZERO MOTIVATION (EFES BEYAHASEI ENOSH) and LOSING GROUND
We are less than two months away from another presidential election, and everything feels awful. The country hangs under a cloud of COVID. Forest in the West continues to burn while hurricanes batter the Gulf Coast. Protests morph into riots, … Continue reading JIMMY CARTER: ROCK & ROLL PRESIDENT
On Sept. 1, TCM launched a 14-week series, Women Make Film: A road trip through 100 films across 44 countries and 12 decades of cinema. One of the delights of TCM’s line-up is how certain movies bump up against each … Continue reading Women Make Film: Jacqueline Audry and Chantal Akerman
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
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Epicentro and Beau travail, now playing at virtual theaters, and discuss what’s missing from the 2020 remake of Mulan, now available on Disney+ Premier … Continue reading
Hubert Sauper is in search of a utopia. The Austrian filmmaker has been searching for some time now, just not as bluntly as in his latest documentary: Epicentro. Here, he opens with a man leaving a cinema to stand on a … Continue reading EPICENTRO
In 1998, Walt Disney Feature Animation released its 36th film, its first and only retelling of a Chinese legend: Mulan, the story of a daughter who dons her father’s armor and pretends to be his son to fight the invading Huns. … Continue reading MULAN
Released at the tail end of the last century, Beau travail was filmmaker Claire Denis’ fifth film: the one that launched her onto the world stage and established her as one of the key cinematic voices of this century. The emphasis on … Continue reading BEAU TRAVAIL
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