It’s hard to know how to appreciate films that are so much of their time. This film by William Klein, who is more often known as a fashion photographer, was made in the 60s as a satire of the fashion industry.
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I swapped into this one at the last minute, not really knowing much about it but feeling that spending 70 minutes in Vietnam might be a nice way to spend a Wednesday afternoon.
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This is one of the Kim Novak retrospective films, and I have a newfound appreciation for her.
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This gentle and ominous fable rather remarkably won Idrissa Ouedraogo the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1990.
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This was an interesting way to bring people from across the world into the reality of what it is to be in a city under siege.
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What a crazy movie. If you know anything about Brazilian history, you will probably not feel quite as lost as I did.
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I couldn’t help but think of Honeyland (2019) while watching this slow and sparse documentary about farmers on an isolated Montenegrin mountain.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s infamous film is one of those that looms large in film studies class. Like L’Age d’Or (1930) and Un Chien Andalou (1929), this was talked about as the most depraved film ever made. The one that couldn’t be shown in so many countries.
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This feels like Ari Aster trying to do a Coen brothers film. And not really succeeding.
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This started off like Dracula: Origins, and I thought, well that’s interesting, but it felt like Luc Besson couldn’t help himself by turning it into a spectacle that achieved less than hoped.
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