Posted in recommendations on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008)
Director: Claire Denis
With: Alex Descas
It’s been some time since I’ve put pen to paper (or digits to keyboard, as it were) to hash out my thoughts on the seventh art. Not much to say about it other than that, um, I’m sorry.
What then would be the film that would [...]
Posted in recommendations on January 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Vagabond (1985)
Director: Agnes Varda
With: Sandrine Bonnaire
I first saw Vagabond years ago, when I was going through a dirty-on-purpose phase in college. Agnes Varda’s story of a wandering, or as one character put it, ‘withering’ vagrant struck a chord with me. As the years passed, I had forgotten some details of the film, but the sense [...]
Posted in recommendations on September 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
semi-weekly film recommendation
AFTER LIFE (1998)
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
With: Erika Oda, Arata
Written by: Hirokazu Kore-eda
The premise of After Life may sound cutely novel or even like the subject of psuedo-philosophical quandaries considered by intoxicated college students. It goes something like this – after you die, you go to a way station, where you have a [...]
Posted in recommendations on August 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
semi-weekly film recommendation
THE GOODTIMESKID (2005)
Director: Azazel Jacobs
With: Azazel Jacobs, Gerardo Narnjo, Sara Diaz
Written by: Azazel Jacobs, Gerardo Naranjo
As the now-redundant mumblecore movement has the press of the print world a-twitter this week, just as they have enthralled the film blog world for a few years, I thought I’d point out [...]
Posted in recommendations on August 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
weekly film recommendation
CRIA CUERVOS! (1976)
Director: Carlos Saura
With: Ana Torrent & Geraldine Chaplin
Written by: Carlos Saura
Can film really allow you to see the world through the eyes of a child? That is, without being juvenile or condescending? Carlos Saura does so in a way that few filmmakers have acheived. Well, with the [...]
Posted in recommendations on August 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
weekly film recommendation
HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971)
Director: Hal Ashby
With: Bud Cort & Ruth Gordon
Written by: Colin Higgins
This film found me at the right time, I guess about eight years ago, and has stuck with me ever since as a favorite. In a way, I used to even use it as a litmus test for friends. [...]
Posted in recommendations on July 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
weekly film recommendation
CAFE LUMIERE (2003)
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
With: Yo Hitoto & Tadanobu Asano
Written by: Hou Hsiao-Hsien & T’ien-wen Chu
Conceived of as a dedication to Yasujiro Ozu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s first film to be shot in Ozu’s native Japan, Cafe Lumiere provides not only the banner image for this site, but a sense of quietude and graceful [...]
