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shouted at my tv like it was a football game for most of this. does more damage to sweden than midsommar
studio blockbusters are currently in the hands of like four white guys who are all exalted for having the exact same taste in comedy, and filling their movies with expository dialogue, montages, and coked-up pacing as to leave more room for that comedy. what if fights were interrupted by someone wanting to resolve it differently. what if we called out the thing that usually happens in these kinds of movies and maybe still do it anyway. what if a man…
Who are you? What do you do? And really, what’s your whole deal, anyways? We know that’s some intense energy to hit you with at the start of the workweek, but trust us: if you don’t have your own answers to these primordial questions of identity you better believe someone else will be more than happy to supply them on your behalf. And when we’re talking about characters operating inside an onscreen narrative, the question of who gets to shape whose story is critical for storytellers…
This Saturday, filmmaker and former St. Louis American editor Chris King will be introducing Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) and leading a post-screening discussion of the film at the St. Louis Public Library's Central Library. At The Lens, King offers a preview of the film:
Wong Kar-wai had built a respectable following after his first two films, As Tears Go By and Days of Being Wild, gained the respects of critics worldwide. After the success of those two projects, Wong became the premier face of the Hong Kong New Wave.
A recent exhibition in Berlin shone a light on Varda's installation works, artfully turning spectators into participants.
Friends, if you aren't caught up yet on the podcast, during the month of August we focused on animated movies. AKA The Animated Summer AKA Animaugust. Our supporters picked the first movie of the month and then each host picked their own movie.
ALLEGORIA is now streaming on Shudder.
August 12, 1927: Groundbreaking aviation drama WINGS premieres at the Criterion Theatre in New York City.
THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS opens with the disturbing image of a distressed man pointing a gun at his wife and her lover as they lay asleep. He doesn’t follow through with the act but the threat of violence permeates through writer-director Richard Machioan’s bleak, tension-filled indie thriller.
“A film that is more emotionally than sexually voyeuristic.” – Lee Marshall, Screen Daily
Juris Podnieks during filming of Is It Easy to Be Young? in 1986
Our highlights from the 26th edition of the continent-spanning, genre-stretching Fantasia International Film Festival.
In August, LaCinetek enters the game with 10 films dedicated to sports.
