The Class of 2021: My Favorite Movies
A short story about breath: Having become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 a month ago, I’ve begun taking regular trips to the movie theater again. Few topics are as perennially popular […]
A short story about breath: Having become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 a month ago, I’ve begun taking regular trips to the movie theater again. Few topics are as perennially popular […]
A lot can change in a year, I believe it’s safe to say. At this point last December, I was thinking about the end of a decade of movies, in […]
The shot lasts only about seventeen seconds, a simple downward tilt. First we see Sama, the young daughter of journalist and filmmaker Waad al-Kateab, being held by her father, Hamza, […]
Consistently regarded as one of the world’s very greatest filmmakers, Federico Fellini is a daunting subject. Developing a bombastic and playful style, he is one of the few who can […]
Zora Neale Hurston, a prominent novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, was also something of an amateur filmmaker, documenting everyday life and work in the American South as part of anthropological […]
Lucy pulls the ball away once again! What’s amazing about the Oscars is that, for movie fans, Lucy can do this twice in the span of a month or two. […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
As it turns out, two things can be true at once. First, with the aid of a couple different subscription services, I’ve been able to see more movies from the […]