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I'm also fully conscious of the fact of me being Canadian gives me some latitude. I think I'd be dead by now if I was a U.S. Citizen, so I can't...

This thread is a little all over the map, and I felt the need to condense it. More context is needed, and I apologize for not completely washing my...

Gloom as high art and profound philosophy Where Andersson, ever painterly in his reference points, claims the influence of the New Objectivity art...

DANNY MADDEN: BEAST BEAST (2020) The young people today, oh my American teen life has long had alcohol, drugs, petty crime, sex, heartbreak,...

STILL FROM maɬni - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE Opened yesterday, April 2, 2021 at Metrograph in New York Two meditative interviews...

ND/NF 2021: Descriptions of the films Aleph ( Iva Radivojevic) Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a...

There are also shorts: Beyond Is the Day dir. Damian Kocur Binh dir. Ostin Fam Heaven Reaches Down to Earth dir. Tebogo Malebogo Hola, abuelo...

Seen or not, Mank is the obvious cinephile's choice. I'm rarely as well prepared as I am this time, having not only seen but written reviews of all...

I'm not qualified this year to pick winners, as I've seen none of the contenders. Your choices seem on the money Chris. I said bet on MANK just on...

Minari trailer Admittedly, I can't watch this without tearing up. Peter Bradshaw's enthusiastic review appears in the Guardian today (April...

ALAN S. KIM AND STEVEN YEUN IN MINARI Johann: Mank is the logical cinephile's choice, a celebration of cinematic complexity recreating a...

This is Zack Snyder's best film to date. It may even be the best superhero movie ever made, and I say that after only seeing it once. He really gave...

William S. Burroughs is buried in the same cemetery as Rush. I think that was a calculated move. I've determined that Rush/Jim was gay, and so was...

Bet on MANK.

Leading the nominations at last Fri. Mar. 12's César Awards with 13 nominations, Emmanuel Mouret's "Les choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait'...

POSTSCRIPT (for those who followed me thru to the end of this thread): I Scoured the news networks and social media for “celebrity”...

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2021: some comments. Like the New York Film Festival and New Directors series for 2020, it was all virtual, with...

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Part of the Silent Sunday Nights series hosted by Jacqueline Stewart, this was a gem. Made by Walther Ruttman, this silent evoked Eisenstein and...

SUMMER OF 85/ÉTÉ 85 (François Ozon 2020) Ozon has finally adapted a tragic gay romance he may haver wanted to film when he started out: he read...

The state of French cinema. Ozon comments. (His SUMMER OF '85 will be the final review in this year's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema coverage.)

FINAL SET/CINQUIEME SET (Quentin Reynaud 2020) A French pro tennis player whose promise vanished early makes one last move at 37 to get into the...