January 1st Three Minutes: A Lengthening / 2021, dir. Bianca Stigler Los Angeles Plays Itself / 2003, dir. Thom Andersen Crimes of the Future / 2022, dir. David Cronenberg India Song / 1975, dir. Marguerite Duras Pearl / 2022, dir. Ti West Every year it seems, there’s a documentary that a number of critics go… Read More 2023 Movie Diary (1/1-1/5): India Songs
Last year, my year-end review of the movies I watched still had the sheen of professional list-making on itl: I thought about it as, more or less, the fifty best movies I saw that year which I hadn’t seen before, but allowed for some leeway on that front to talk about the movies which I… Read More 2019 Year-End Review: Forty-Five Moments
Dir. Luchino Visconti. Starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale I don’t know that there are many other movies like The Leopard, at least not from the past fifty years. The Leopard would be able to function as a silent movie. Although the three hours are filled with dialogue, much of it seems as decorative as the frescoes… Read More The Leopard (1963)
