đşđ¸ Civil War, the latest film by writer-director Alex Garland (“Ex Machina”), imagines an America divided, in which rebel forces from breakaway states try to depose an autocratic president. Turner Classic Movies […]
HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on trying to model the complex “real […]
âGodfrey Reggio and TikTokâ by Eva Elcano Movement, correct speed, language, words, music, image, shape, resolution. An audiovisual composition built through the collaborative filmography of Godfrey Reggio, looking for a new encounterâa […]
The archipelago Svalbard in the Arctic is a place anyone can call home. A zone with no visa requirements, people from more than 50 countries live and work here. But life in […]
By Bob Margolin The more blues-driven musicians commandeered the instruments at the jam, and played some old favorite songs together, mostly Robert Johnsonâs. This sounds like a common scene at open-mic jams […]
By Paul Schrader I’ve participated in the Sight and Sound ten best list since my critic days in the early 70’s. Every decade the list mutates (and dilutes as the list of […]
By @historycoolkids Considering how poorly Asian men are portrayed in Hollywood, I was genuinely surprised to learn about Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became one of the biggest stars during the […]
WITCH HUNT, 1994. Thought it was lost to time, but here it is on YouTube. How did this movie get on my c.v.? Not sure. I was shifting gears and ended up […]
A ‘proof-of-concept’ trailer for a four-part series covering the post-punk scenes of the years 1978-82, using Simon Reynolds’ book ‘Rip It Up + Start Again’ as a roadmap. This version is a […]
By Paul Schrader SECOND THOUGHTS. I think the time has come to let Citizen Kane go. It is, after all, the granddaddy of all time best film lists. But I’m replacing it […]
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