Letterboxd — Your life in film

even though there isn’t really a plot and it’s far from the point, this makes a good case for how spoilers/predictability has little to do with the quality of a film. after a minute or prior if you, like myself, read a description, you know exactly what’s going to happen—it’s going to move in farther. if you know much about zooms, you likewise know the depth will flatten and the water passing will appear faster than it was prior even…

Bay is a fuck-yes technician. But my favorite thing he does is trot out the kind of shallow thematic canvas necessary for self-congratulatory doofuses to cum all over with their half-baked, usually proto-masculine musings. And that's not even sarcasm. Glass of wine, read all mess of LB drivel from unemployed trust fund babies with too much time on their hands to flip through the Internet's notes on how to talk about a Bay film. Recipe for a good time. That's…

In the running for worst movie I've ever seen. I watched this immediately after going to see the nearly four hour Lawrence of Arabia, longer than JFK by an hour, and yet those hours flew by in comparison to the addle-brained slog that is Oliver Stone's film. JFK is somehow SO MUCH MOVIE, deploying maximum cinematic technique in every department, and hardly a movie at all. It's more a manifesto, feverishly dragging you along from scene to scene like string…

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In…

"Absence of the Good is all about family. It’s about the damage that can be done to a person by his family... It’s almost a genealogical detective story..." — John Flynn

A serial killer film predicated on muted sadness and winter light. While Flynn can't fully transcend its TV Movie-ness, particularly in the handling of the wife's arc, he wrests it away from the typical sensationalism of the subject and its predictable standbys. Rather than expressionist shadows or ghoulish art…

Wilson’s film is a stunning visual manipulation of light, akin to Brakhage’s The Text of Light (1974) in its exploration of shapes in shadows. Wilson merges surrounding nature with the spectacle of light fading and flickering, creating paths and shapes with darkness, allowing other images to fade in and out, superimpose, or contain all of these effects all at once. Light in this film is constantly changing in new ways, and the images created via the perceived motion of nature…

goodbye, ghost is currently featured on Prismatic Ground, an awesome festival I'm so thrilled to be in! It's in Wave 12 and you can watch it here:

www.prismaticground.com/wave-12

It will also be screening in person on May 8 at Maysles Documentary Center in NYC.

I've said it a bunch of times but I really do feel like this is a video diary of an alien part of my life - a visualization of a mental health crisis I had no…