Film Notes
November 19, 2022
November 19, 2022
Cold running. Twitter might be dying. The Menu was an okay movie. Digital ghosts.
October 1, 2022
Oktember
It’s the first of October, and I give praise for proper autumn at last. Deeper nights. Sharper weather. There’s room in the air to think.
April 24, 2021
Double Feature
Nightcrawler and Bringing Out the Dead
October 25, 2020
Safe
A friend sent me an article about a helmet you can buy that creates its own microclimate of filtered, customized air.
January 15, 2020
Retreat
This season is defined by muted Bergman films projected on the wall in the hour of the wolf.
January 2, 2020
Ash
“The bottom line is we’re all prisoners of the universe.” This becomes the coda for Jia Zhangke’s Ash is Purest White, where a dangerous romance downshifts into existential longing.