News From Home – a film by Chantal Akerman
How long is a long take? That’s the question I was asking myself as I began watching this mesmerizing film which is basically a lot of long takes in New […]
Category Archives: Movies
I Yam What I Yam
A film by Bryan Konefsky TRT 16.5 minutes, Bryan Konefsky 2005 In 1929 monocular vision was not limited to the gaze of telescopes (Edwin Hubble) or movie cameras (Dziga Vertov). […]
Citizen Trump
Watching the Trump years at the White House is like watching Citizen Kane without knowing how it ends, without even knowing what “rosebud” will mean. We are, however, picking up […]
The Searchers
I like discussing influences which may also be a way of simply saying I am not ashamed to admit where it all comes from….anyway, took a shot of a “back […]
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
Douglas Fairbanks as the greatest drug addict/detective in the history of cinema! Brilliant film from 1915 with a postmodern ending and you can see that being friends with Chaplin really, […]
The Accidental Sea
Interesting film on California’s abandoned Salton Sea.
Urban Explorers: Into The Darkness (full length movie)
Adrift
I have yet to see anything that so sublimely and elegantly shows how mankind and nature can cohabit this planet, yet we continue to lay a massive pounding on the […]
La Mémoire des anges
Awesome film by Luc Bourdon that you will not be able to stop watching if you have any interest in Montreal in the 50’s and 60’s. One of the first […]
À bout de souffle / Breathless
À bout de souffle / Breathless
La Chinoise
Released one year before the student protests in Paris in 1968 this film is still relevant in this time of the Occupy movement. Below is a description I like. “Godard does not […]
Alphaville
Low budget sci fi noir from Godard, you can do a lot worse. “Lemmy Caution is a secret agent with the code number of 003 from “the Outlands”. Entering Alphaville in his Ford […]
Eloge de l’amour / In Praise Of Love
This film is equally known for it’s “attacks” on American culture in general and Stephen Spielberg in particular as it is for it’s hypercolour last third. Godard at his best. I will […]
Godard Week At My Place
Is it still winter? Going all artsy fartsy intellectual, and maybe having a bit of fun. Been working on something from King Lear lately and thought this film might inspire. […]
Night And The City
Harry Fabian is a small time con man with big dreams in 1950 London in glorious black and white. What could possibly go wrong? Night And The City
PostArctica 