Butte
Three films by Wim Wenders
Paris, Texas (1984), Lisbon Story (1994) and Don't Come Knocking (2005)
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fascism
Review: El Conde (2023)
The dictator as a vampire; the vampire movie as an allegory of fascism
superheroes
Review: The Marvels (2023)
The Marvels (2023) Directed by Nia DeCosta Imagine a huge mural or fresco, hundreds of feet in width and at least 100 feet high, that depicts an enormous series of historical events. The Bible, say, or Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” or the Mahabarata, with creation stories, warring gods, rising and falling
spy vs. spy
Review: Argylle (2024)
Given the time and budget to do everything, they did. Not in a great way.
slow cinema
Review: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
Vietnamese art film is Slow Cinema to a fault
Chile
Review: The Settlers (Los Colonos) (2023)
Another country soaked with blood
BDSM
Review: Secretary (2002)
Also, the uncanny valley of high-definition TV
US v Russia
Review: I.S.S. (2024)
Lack of imagination spoils this orbital thriller
Newsletter
Review: The Book of Clarence (2023)
The film asks: Is faith a matter of belief, or of knowledge?
cultural appropriation
Review: American Fiction (2023)
Give the people what they want
writers
Essay: Between the Lines (1977)
Between the Lines (1977) Directed by Joan Micklin Silver Another in an occasional series on the films of my youth (1970-80) In the 1970s, one of the coolest things you could be, if you weren’t in a band, was a journalist. Probably the coolest journalists of all worked for
Victorians
Review: Poor Things (2023)
Did we need another version of Pygmalion?