Category: Blog
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The 10 Most Underrated Films I Watched in 2018
The end of each year inevitably brings a deluge of top 10 lists. Of course, many of them include the same films. For 2018, we expect that Cold War, Burning, Roma, and Shoplifters will be on most lists. I wanted to do something a bit different and create a top 10 that highlighted films that […]
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An Interview with Mirko Stopar
For me, everything begins with Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc. It’s my favorite film. It’s the film that made me fall in love with cinema. It’s not often that you can point to a specific work of art and say that it made you who you are, but that’s the case […]
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On Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970)
Note: This piece originally appeared on Burning House Press November 28, 2016 Barbara Loden is Wanda, as they say in the movies. Her inspiration for the screenplay was a newspaper story she had read about a woman convicted of robbing a bank; her accomplice was dead and she appeared in court alone. Sentenced to […]
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On Chantal Akerman’s South (1999)
Note: This piece originally appeared on Burning House Press on August 8, 2016 How does the southern silence become so heavy and so menacing so suddenly? How do the trees and the whole natural environment evoke so intensely death, blood, and the weight of history? How does the present call up the past? And […]
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On The Cinematic Beauty of Max Richter’s The Blue Notebooks
Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say at night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the […]
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Review: À Cran (Solange Martin, 1994)
I love films about two strangers who meet and feel a connection to one another and take the time to explore that connection. Solange Martin’s À cran (released in English as On the Edge) is one such film. It’s about Clara, a woman who goes to pick up her husband at the airport, but he isn’t […]
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Fragments: Nuit et Jour (Chantal Akerman, 1991)
A young couple living in Paris in the 1990s. He drives a cab at night. She wanders the streets until he comes home at dawn. His name is Jack. Her name is Julie. What is more romantic than Paris in the summertime? This recurring idea in the film of sleep being a kind of death. […]
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Cinema as a Living Dream
Lately, I’ve been watching films about films. The connecting thread throughout all of them has been Martin Scorsese. I could listen to him talk about movies all day. Scorsese is a tireless advocate for cinema and he speaks about the art form in a way that is both personal and technical. He can talk about […]
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Fragments: Vers Mathilde (Claire Denis, 2005)
Whenever you make an incursion into a space, that space is altered. I like this idea of leaving a scratch because that space is altered by that scratch after. It’s like a piece of paper that has a mark on it and is no longer blank[…] In other words, the memory leaves a mark. The […]
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Fragments: Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras, 1972)
I wanted to render silence. A rich, living silence. Like something you might have been able to hear. *** In my films I don’t gloss over or suppress those things that aren’t functional or organic to the expressive unity of the fiction—they are made up of a material that’s lacerated, superimposed, offset in time; […]
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