Oct 31, 2022
Just in time for the spookiest day of the year, we take a look at Nicolas Roeg’s classic meditation on death and loss set in perhaps the most melancholic and atmospheric place in the world. Ah, Venice… Venice in the Winter, that is. Things get sad and steamy for Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie who play...
Oct 24, 2022
It’s Fellini-time! Somehow it took our random number generator 4 seasons to finally pick a film in the Criterion Collection by this legendary Italian director. But is all of the glamour and allure only ephemeral vanity in the acrid meaningless of it all? Hmmm, someone should make a movie about that…
If you’d...
Oct 17, 2022
A “forgotten man” named Godfrey (played by the charming William Powell) finds a path to redemption when he’s hired on as the butler to the rich, bored, and otherwise useless Bullock family… for some reason? And he sure shows them a thing or two about their vapid existence as they all inevitably fall in love...
Oct 10, 2022
Perhaps the most Finnish way to make a love letter to Finland is to make a movie that emphasizes a kind of remote inhabitability of a place and its people. No really: this movie about a deadpan population, their apathetic bureaucracy, an undercurrent of white nationalism in the streets of Helsinki, frigid weather, and...
Oct 3, 2022
Time to mark off another square on your Terry Gilliam bingo card, because this week we are journey through time and space into the exquisitely crafted universe of a mad god. Which, coincidentally, is also the plot of his movie.
If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing...