Dec 30, 2019
Luis Bunuel joins illustrious list of directors to be featured on our podcast. What an honor! And in classic, Random-Acts-of-Cinema-fashion, we’re going to start with a later film in a filmmaker’s oeuvre that doesn’t quite fit the mold. Diary of a Chambermaid tells the 1920s-set story of Celestine, a beautiful...
Dec 23, 2019
Reflections, prisms, the dance of car lights across a rain sprinkled window to a Parisian cafe. It sure looks like we’re reviewing some 1990s art house cinema this week. And we are are doing exactly that, with the ur-Trois Coleurs trilogy entrant, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Veronique. This film...
Dec 16, 2019
Now we’re talking. This is some serious Criterion Collection viewing right here. Pedro Costa’s docufiction is a snail’s-paced meditation on the lives of the largely Cape Verde immigrants living in the Fontainhas neighborhood of Lisbon, Portugal. This movie is not concerned with entertaining you. This movie is...
Dec 9, 2019
Ah, if only we could go back to the bohemian nexus of the American folk scene in 1960s Greenwich village. To be among the beatnicks and intellectuals, musical anthropologists and legendary performers. Drinking coffee and arguing over varyingly intense leftist ideas. Living, loving, and just soaking in the timeless...
Dec 2, 2019
A plucky trio of young contributors to the Allied war effort find themselves caught up in a dastardly plot to poor glue in girls’ hair in a small English town. But mostly they all just come to learn about how the shared heritage of America and England is a noble culture worth celebrating. Basically, this is...