Recently King of New York (1990) I haven't watched much Ferrara, but this was more exacting and elusive than I expected from him. Some wild things pointing every which way to untangle here, but at least one can't say it doesn't tackle politics in interesting and blunt ways. Walken and Fishburne real...

La Cienaga (Martel, 2001): My first by Martel. Its care for everdayness coupled with its elliptical storytelling—not to mention its long payoffs with motifs—is wonderful. Not to mention its Latin American class relations are extremely familiar to me too. I'm really excited to see how she pushes clas...

Watched Frederick Wiseman's Welfare : Its attention to the detail of the overlapping human interactions is overwhelming. The barriers are constant, and every subject here slips through the cracks. Part of me wishes he had pulled back to add the building's interior architecture into the bureaucratic ...

Small Soldiers (1998): Gotta keep Spielberg in mind while watching this lol. Both more explicit in its politics and goofier in its action (especially the final showdown) than I remembered from my last viewing years ago; it's venomous and light on its feet. Reminds me of Verhoeven in that its satiric...

A double feature of Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness! Been a while since I've watched Mouth of Madness

Nothing new here, but the first DVD's I owned were Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. That was senior year of high school, and my interest was still sparse. My regular viewing habits didn't develop until my second year in college, which was around the time I discovered Jonathan Rosenbaum. Weirdly enou...

Leave No Trace (2018): I saw someone online reference Kelly Reichardt, and I see the parallel in the way the movie lets its shots sit, catching some of the subtle expressions of the characters along the way. Like its one-to-two figure restrained framing, it works best on the level of the personal/p...

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