Category: film
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Another film I saw at the fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival was dir. Doug Aitken’s Station to Station. Billed as 61 one-minute films, this quasi-documentary of a 24-day, 4000-mile,… more ›
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“I won’t be fooled by a cheap cinematic trick.” – Missing Persons The fourth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival opened last night with a showing of dir. Sean Baker’s Tangerine at the… more ›
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The Polish word gruz can be translated as rubble, ruins, wreckage. There is no doubt, then, that director Paweł Pawlikowski intends something specific by having one of his protagonists bear that name. This… more ›
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In Rossellini’s Germany, Year Zero Berlin’s bombed-out buildings manifest the destruction the war had already wreaked inside the characters’ lives. The city, once a specific site of history, becomes in Rossellini’s harsh… more ›
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I’m always up for a good ménage à trois film, but, to be blunt, there hasn’t been one until now. Last night I watched Spanish director Xavier Villaverde’s El sexo de… more ›
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To prepare in advance for my time in Rome (at Italian cafes), I’ve spent the past several days reading and watching Pasolini and writing poems in honor of Pasolini: evoking/provoking/convoking… more ›
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Nietzsche writes in Ecce Homo that it is something like a sickness to sit down at the beginning of the day to read instead of taking a brisk walk first.… more ›
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Better red than dead. We’ve been watching the film version of Angels in America slowly over the past few weeks after recording it off Logo. It’s so dense, tightly woven,… more ›
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Well, I kept my cell phone on buzz from late September until today hoping that I’d get that call either from the MacArthur Foundation or Sweden. No such luck. I… more ›
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Saw a dog of a movie this holiday weekend: The Year of the Dog. Who in their right mind liked this film? And why did so many people recommend it… more ›