Hamlet on Film: Letterboxd Reviews
I’ve gotten to know this play pretty well over the last couple weeks, having as of this writing seen sixteen of the twenty-seven renditions I’ve lined up for this retrospective. […]
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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 […]
Double Feature: High Noon and Cléo from 5 to 7
A straight stretch of train tracks extend into oblivion, their iron rumbling with a whispered threat. In the gentle town nearby, two solemn and innocent ceremonies take place at the […]
Double Feature: The Brave Little Toaster and Toy Story 3
During his first stint with Disney, John Lasseter pitched an adaptation of the Thomas M. Disch children’s story The Brave Little Toaster. Computer technology was a wide-open frontier in the early […]
“All He’s Got and All He’s Ever Gonna Have” — Unforgiven
For feeling sad, Unforgiven is without question one of the most effective of movies. So many of life’s miseries are cataloged here, from loss of life and broken relationships to the […]
Double Feature: Blowup and Blow Out
One of the promises of cinema has always been the recording and preservation of objective reality. Even as the world changes and splinters like never before, video evidence is still […]
Double Feature: My Darling Clementine and Tombstone
The shootout at the O.K. Corral is one of the defining stories of the American West. Famously lasting only thirty seconds, the altercation ended with three deaths and stamped the […]
Double Feature: Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
[Note: I’m not always careful with spoiler warnings on this blog. The movies I talk about are almost never new, and I proceed from the assumption that anyone interested enough […]
My Favorite Movies: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
It might not even make sense to judge these movies individually, as opposed to three parts of a single, very long, movie. So much of the emotional wallop contained in The […]
Crescendo Into the Infinite
Can we imagine a more beautiful death than oxygen depletion during a space walk? Floating in absolute peace and utter silence, free to simply gaze at the most beautiful object […]
Geppetto's Clocks 