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Random Acts of Cinema

Mar 26, 2024

René Lalou’s timeless (well, maybe not exactly) hand drawn science fiction epic turns a skeptical eye on human systems of power in an unimaginable world of inhuman blue giants (that are somehow even more human).  You know: it’s your basic Jack and the Beanstalk meets Avatar situation.  With better (by which I mean...


Mar 18, 2024

The good days are long past for Chan and Leung, a couple slowly drifting apart, and losing themselves in the oncoming wave of modernity consisting of unemployment, debt, loneliness, and alienation.  But since Edward Yang directed it, somehow it’s all beautiful.

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Mar 11, 2024

There was a time, believe it or not, when the channel Bravo was willing to pay for some “celebrities” and a camera crew to get out of their comfort zones, go on various excursions around the world, and watch the sparks fly as they bicker, backstab, and try to make “reality” look fun for the audiences back home....


Mar 4, 2024

Brett Morgen's expressionistic documentary seeks to sidestep the question of "which is the real David Bowie?" and instead sees the creation of his personas as just one strategy used by the performer to craft a life of continuous artistic challenge and innovation.  "Reinvention" isn't so much a gimmick used to promote...