Uh … 3 ½? — The Other Side of the Wind
The Introduction Now that we have it, what do we do with it? Thirteen months ago, The Other Side of the Wind was released to the public, just like that — […]
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Uh … 3 ½? — Get Out
The Introduction One of the true cinematic success stories of this decade, both popularly and critically, is Jordan Peele’s Get Out, an original movie in an age of franchises that managed […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Voyage of Time
The Introduction Terrence Malick’s first and, to date, only nonfiction film took an appropriately long and strange journey into existence. Its origins can be traced back to the abandoned film […]
Uh … 3 ½? — No Home Movie
The Introduction Chantal Akerman’s final film, No Home Movie traveled the festival circuit for a year before arriving on the streaming service MUBI in the summer of 2016. By the time […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Selma
The Introduction I first saw Ava DuVernay’s Selma in those pre-MoviePass days when going to a theater by myself was a rare occurrence. This was the weekend after the Oscar nominations […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Like Someone in Love
The Introduction In the words of Jean-Luc Godard, “Cinema begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.” I’m fairly certain this quote had nothing do with my planning when, […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Melancholia
The Introduction Following on the heels of my introduction to the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul in the summer of 2015, I set my sights on one of cinema’s true rascals: […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
The Introduction When I set about, in July of 2015, to watch all the major films by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (known affectionately as “Joe”), the thought crossed my […]
Uh … 3 ½? — To Sir, With Love
The Introduction The first of three films in which Sidney Poitier starred in 1967, To Sir, With Love is a modest, workaday film that quickly withdrew before the trumpeted ambitions of In […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Stalker
The Introduction My experience with non-English-language cinema was still very shallow when I first took the plunge into the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. It was July of 2012. Picking out […]
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