Agnès Varda is nothing short of a living legend. She will turn ninety next month and has been making films for seven decades which is remarkable considering in those seven decades very little has necessarily changed to make it easier for women directors to have a long career. She is one of the key filmmakers …
Continue reading Directed By Women: Agnès Varda Edition (April 2018)
It may come as a surprise to some of you that I am a Christian (and a seminary-trained one to boot). It shouldn't because I explicitly state this in my bio, but I understand if that is potentially shocking given the fact that (a) I haven't reviewed any explicit Christian films (and haven't intentionally watched …
I will admit that for most of my run in catching up with the Best Picture winners I hadn't seen yet it has been a bit of a slog. It simply confirmed that there was a reason why I ignored most of these movies in the first place as I ran the gamut of over-wrought, …
As the title of this post may indicate, this is the second edition of my quest to actually see all the Best Picture Winners. While Volume 1 helped to shatter some preconceived notions of the kinds of movies that win the Oscars, Volume 2 has only emphasized that there are very valid reasons why the …
So I had grand plans of making a comprehensive ranking of every Academy Award best picture winner at the end of the month. I just have one problem: Apparently even though I've watched over 2,500 movies I've only seen 63 of the 89 best picture winners. This is hardly surprising given that I tend to …
Such are the times that we live in that a well-made movie documenting one of the most important journalistic investigations in American history that showcases the importance of the first amendment and argues vehemently for the necessity of a free and independent press feels like a partisan political statement at all. Yet here we are, …
Anybody who has had a glimpse of the magnitude of my personal movie collection has long suspected that I have a problem. And they would be right. My collection is enormous thanks to the lethal combinations of my completionist streak, the increasing availability of disposable income, and the general collapse of the home video market. …
Continue reading Adventures in Criterion Vol. 1: Crime Movies
Last year was year two of my ongoing pledge to watch 52 films made by women a year. Unfortunately while I have come close, I have failed to reach that goal in both of those years. But rather than feel defeated, I'm going to take solace in two things: I have come close to fulfilling …
As we draw to the end of another year in the film industry, the lid has been blown open on a long-held secret in Hollywood: It is an unequal work environment in which women are severely underrepresented and thus specifically vulnerable to exactly the kinds of sexual harassment and assault cases that have sprung forward …
Even though I have given myself until after after the Oscars in March to put together my final Best of 2017 list (due to how hard it is for this amateur critic to actually catch up with all the contenders sans "For-Your-Consideration" screeners and press screenings) there is undeniably a peer-pressure inspired rush to the …
Continue reading 2017 Movies Catch-Up Rapid-Fire Part 2 (Increasingly Panicked Edition)
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