Franz ★★
Having been to Prague, where the troubled title character of Agnieszka Holland‘s erratic biopic spent most of his life, significantlyContinue Reading
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A Real Pain ★★★½
Writer/director Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain follows as two men, cousins David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin), travel to PolandContinue Reading
Predictions for the 95th Academy Awards
Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the Academy Awards this year, the Academy choosing a tried and true host, this year’sContinue Reading
EO ★★★
There is no obvious thread connecting Jerzy Skolimowski’s work. His Deep End remains a powerful, transgressive expose of toxic masculinityContinue Reading
French Actresses in Film
Tying in with our July Theme Month on Women-Directed Films, we thought we would highlight performances from a handful ofContinue Reading
Loving Vincent and Painted Biography
Biographical films about artists often seemed doomed to failure or, at the very least, extreme dullness. Often seeming to beContinue Reading
2022 Atlanta Film Festival: “The Balcony Movie”
I had intended to cover the Atlanta Film Festival in person – and, in fact, was scheduled to move backContinue Reading
Żuławski’s Unseen Debut: The Third Part of the Night
Andrzej Żuławski has always cultivated somewhat of a niche audience, and reasonably so. Few filmmakers are as grotesque, reveling inContinue Reading
Cosmos: Abstract Absurdism
American auteur David Lynch is often quoted in proclaiming “I get ideas and I want to put them on filmContinue Reading
Dekalog: The Mosaic of Life
Five years before his Three Colors trilogy followed three different stories with different characters, themes, tones, and visual compositions, withContinue Reading
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