Every Saturday in August, Brennan Klein will be subbing in for Summer of Blood by exploring a German krimi film from the 1960’s. Now that we’ve skipped straight from the krimi subgenre’s inception to the middle of the boom, let’s stop and smell the roses for a while in 1964. This weekend we’re taking a look at […]
Every Saturday in August, Brennan Klein will be subbing in for Summer of Blood by exploring a German krimi film from the 1960’s. When last we left the German krimi, it was just being birthed upon an unsuspecting world in 1959’s Fellowship of the Frog. Now we shall alight in 1964, smack dab in the height of […]
[Editor’s Note: Although I’m taking the summer off from looking at violent thrillers & horror movies, Brennan Klein has very kindly offered to take up the slack. Every Saturday this month, he’ll be taking us on a tour of the German crime genre that led into the Italian crime genre that led into the American […]
Damned if I know why “Iranian filmmaker directing European art cinema” has turned out to be such a robust, reliable formula, but here we are with Everybody Knows, writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s eighth feature and the first made entirely outside of his home country, and the pattern holds. This is, admittedly, not necessarily the consensus opinion […]
The title of Life Itself comes from one of its most particularly florid, sophomoric lines, “The most unreliable narrator is life itself.” This sentence, or a close variation, is spoken enough times during the length of the film that, if you were to take a shot every single time, you would likely die. Given that […]
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If you did not believe that the late children’s television host Fred McFeely Rogers was the most wholeheartedly good and decent human being to live and work in the 20th Century prior to watching Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, I’m pretty sure you’d believe it afterwards. The film isn’t exactly a documentary of Rogers’s life […]
Ana Lily Amirpour’s 2014 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was just about every last little thing I want out of a directorial debut: technically adept and hugely gorgeous, full of left-field concepts, and just limited enough in some really obvious ways that it was easy to hope that her next one would be […]
“Man, I loved the hell out of Dogtooth. I wish Yorgos Lanthimos would make another movie that made me feel as elaborately horrible as Dogtooth” is not by any means the kind of statement that everybody could or should agree with, but it’s a strongly-held belief of your humble author. And as much as I […]
