A way-homer if ever there was one, Dane Komljen's second feature, commissioned by the Jeonju Cinema Project, is a bold film, a three-part tone poem about the natural world and human beings' place in it. ...
2023-06-10 05:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
BY REQUEST: Daniel Waller
Second viewing, last seen on HBO probably in '96. It's a film I haven't thought all that much about since then, and although I have a different perspectiv...
2023-06-09 05:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Challenging one, this. In several respects it is one of Hong's most original films. Granted, it isn't shot almost entirely out of focus, like in water from earlier this year. But it's...
2023-06-08 05:21:23 +0000 UTC View Post
One of last year's more acclaimed films, Ashley McKenzie's Queens of the Qing Dynasty is difficult, raw, and at times repellent. Tonally, and in terms of rhythm and pacing, it's very nearly the ...
2023-06-08 03:48:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I always try to give my subscriber base their (your) money's worth. But every so often a film comes along that just makes next to no impression on me. I would be hard-pressed to say anything e...
2023-06-06 00:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post
And here are the latest lucky winners!
#95: LUKE FOWLER
#29: DANIEL WALLER
#32: DANIEL WOOD
Yes, we have two Da...
2023-06-05 04:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a remarkable awkwardness running through Monica, the third feature film by Andrea Pallaoro. It's the sort of awkwardness more typical of debut films, when a director is still learning ho...
2023-06-05 04:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio, 2023)
In many critics’ wrap-ups from Cannes, there was a dismissive attitude toward Ken Loach’s film The Old Oak. As is often the case wit...
2023-06-04 05:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
BY REQUEST: Beatriz Rivas
Well, where to begin? For about half the running time of Possession, I thought I might be watching one of the greatest films of all time. And whi...
2023-06-03 23:18:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a few minutes of downtime today, and I began thinking about [W/O]s. Now, this refers to a "walkout," a film that I watched at least a third of, but stopped (or if I'm in the theater, physically wal...
2023-05-28 03:06:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Légua (João Miller Guerra and Filipa Reis, 2023)
It’s been five years since Djon Africa, the last feature from the directorial duo of João Miller Guerra and Filipa Re...
2023-05-28 00:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This Isn't What It Appears (Heehyun Choi, 2022)
BY REQUEST: David Dinnell
In these Patreon "pages" I have expressed my ambivalence regarding the new crop of ...
2023-05-28 00:38:38 +0000 UTC View Post
As we head into another IP Tentpole Summer, it's worth noting that Houston has quite a few things to see this weekend. In addition to catching up with BlackBerry, we've got Master Gardener 2023-05-19 01:32:23 +0000 UTC View Post
BY REQUEST: T.J. Larson
Romand's French subtitle, méli-mélo, translates as hodgepodge or jumble, and that gives a slight hint about the film to come. Mix-Up is ...
2023-05-18 23:27:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I only just now got around to watching this. I think I'd unconsciously avoided it because I suspected it was little more than a conceptual jape, a dig at the viewer who found Wavelength "too lon...
2023-05-18 22:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Last seen June 2011. I had forgotten how enjoyable So Is This is, and not just because of Snow's clever self-reflexivity and goofy humor. A large part of the pleasure of This is the fac...
2023-05-18 05:02:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Which Colour? premiered earlier this year in Rotterdam, and I watched it because of the high praise it received from Srikanth Srin...
2023-05-15 20:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I mentioned Where in my Prismatic Ground wrap for Film Comment 2.0, but it seemed like it warranted a bit more discussion. Just barely eking in as a 2022 release (world premiered on December 22)...
2023-05-14 04:26:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I will admit right off the bat, I am glad this film exists, despite my deep ambivalence towards it. In an industry, to say nothing of a broader culture, that is so seduced by risk-averse finan...
2023-05-14 03:04:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to final grades and other day-job obligations, I didn't get as much time to spend with the online Experiments in Cinema festival as I might have liked. Richard Herskowitz asked me if I had any recomm...
2023-05-13 05:23:34 +0000 UTC View Post
NYC RGB (Viktoria Schmid, 2023)
Sometimes all you need is a simple idea expertly executed. Schmid's film is a lyrical symphony-film depicting a few days in New York -- skylines, ro...
2023-05-10 04:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been following Makino's very distinctive filmmaking for a number of years, although I certainly have many films to catch up with. I have heard others speak of his work as if he does a particular "th...
2023-05-10 03:28:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Promised Lands (Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, 2018)
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa was a Ugandan artist who'd spent the last several years based in the U.K. Her work had been gaining greater expos...
2023-05-09 01:53:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Formalist comedies. Apparently they're still allowed, at least for now. Although About Thirty is organized as a character study, it's really more of a self-incriminating highlight reel of fuck-u...
2023-05-08 04:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for the ol' number randomizer to do its thing once again.
Our next three selectors are:
#152: T.J. Larson
#14: Beatriz Rivas
.....
2023-05-08 02:35:13 +0000 UTC View Post
BY REQUEST: Ryan Wu
Lancelot du Lac is nowhere near my favorite Bresson. It wouldn't even be top five. But watching it again for the first time since 2004, I am...
2023-05-08 02:27:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra de Mata, 2022)
Part of what’s so great about the Prismatic Ground festival is that it...
2023-05-08 01:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post
HI gang.
I haven't posted here for a minute, mostly because I have been mainlining the 2023 Prismatic Ground Film Festival. I have reviews of several films coming out in In Review Online, and a fes...
2023-05-03 21:14:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Is anything we see in Showing Up good art? I puzzled over this while watching Reichardt's film, and I found myself inclined to say no. Main character Lizzie (Michelle Williams) is seen fussing o...
2023-04-27 02:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post
BY REQUEST: Craig Lindsey
You're crazy for this one, Crizzle.
Black Shampoo is a startlingly amateur, low-budget Blaxploitation film, seemingly made in order to capi...
2023-04-24 02:16:29 +0000 UTC View Post