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My take on the bifurcated endings of Eyimofe is that it acknowledges that women get the shitty end of the stick, FWIW. Like you, I wasn't initially very taken with it, but it stuck with me.
Giving away the supernatural twist in films is something of a mini-theme this year.
Spank's LFF Diary, Monday 12/10/2020
Reviewed today: Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), Sound For The Future, Undine. 11:30am: Sound For The Future [official site] <Peter Kay voice> Hey, anyone here remember rabies? </Peter Kay voice> For those of us of a certain age, fear of rabies was one of the key pillars of 1970s British racism: c...
Ah, the Christmas interregnum means I have only just seen this - thanks for the shout!
MOSTLY FILM: Review Of 2013
We're getting into the vinegar strokes of 2013, so everyone's doing their analyses of what's been good and bad about it. That applies to Europe's Best Website too, of course. This week, Mostly Film has been running a three-part review of the year, with contributions from many of its regulars. O...
@Glenn - Oh, for sure. One of the interesting things about the reception of Margaret is that I've seen aspects of it compared to all kinds of people - Pialat, Rohmer, Cassavetes...
"A Brighter Summer Day," "Margaret," and film criticism as activism and/or service journalism
"I think it's one of the great films," a screenwriter of my acquaintance said to me last week, at our first in-person meeting, of Edward Yang's 1991 A Brighter Summer Day. His choice of words was, as always, entirely deliberate: "one of the great films," not "one of the great Taiwan films," no...
I've missed the opportunity to see ABSD in London two years in a row now, but am just about to add that Terrorizers BluRay to my cart, so thanks for that michaelgsmith.
I thought this piece was going to be about similarities between Margaret and Yang's films - I saw A Confucian Confusion at the BFI Yang season recently, and there's something of its multifaceted nature in Margaret.
"A Brighter Summer Day," "Margaret," and film criticism as activism and/or service journalism
"I think it's one of the great films," a screenwriter of my acquaintance said to me last week, at our first in-person meeting, of Edward Yang's 1991 A Brighter Summer Day. His choice of words was, as always, entirely deliberate: "one of the great films," not "one of the great Taiwan films," no...
Interesting comparison of Target to Southland Tales. And yes, I'd rather see Suothland Tales a thousand moer times than rewatch a single frame of Target.
Spank's LFF Diary: The Wrap Party 2011
Or perhaps we could go with SpodoKomodo's suggestion of 'The Creeping Sense of Post-Festival Ennui' as a title this year. Whatever. With London Film Festival 2011 fast becoming a distant memory, here's our reviewing team to sum up what they thought of it - new reviews from Lesley, and final tho...
I knew I should have called it something else! The Debrief? The Rubdown? The Creeping Sense of Post-Festival Ennui?
MOSTLY FILM: London Film Festival 2011 - The Afterparty
Yes, yes, I know you're sick to death of the London Film Festival by now. We're nearly done, promise. But were you aware that in addition to the coverage you've been following here over the last couple of weeks, there have also been daily reports from the folks at Mostly Film, Europe's B...
I was young and naive!
London Film Festival 2011
Take one last look at these babies: once the 55th London Film Festival has concluded on October 27th, you're probably not going to see them again. LFF 2011 will be the tenth and final Festival with Sandra Hebron in charge as artistic director. She'd been attached to the Festival for a while bef...
You know, I was there for that screening of Hearts in Atlantis, but I have completely erased the film from my memory.
London Film Festival 2011
Take one last look at these babies: once the 55th London Film Festival has concluded on October 27th, you're probably not going to see them again. LFF 2011 will be the tenth and final Festival with Sandra Hebron in charge as artistic director. She'd been attached to the Festival for a while bef...
Ah, no, I can't read that, but an early snippet of actual falsfiable argument pulled from the early paras:
>> The film current was such that even a levelheaded (if mediocre) critic like New York magazine’s David Edelstein claimed director James Cameron “has an old-fashioned command of composition: strong foregrounds and layers of texture and movement reaching back into the frame and down to the teeniest pixel.” What? That more or less describes any shot taken by a motion-picture camera with a wide depth of field.
Am I misremembering, or did Avatar in fact have notably shallow depth of field, as complained about (incorrectly IMHO) by Jim Emerson? Edelstein is talking about composition and cutting, not focus.
Feisty young bolshie has brain fart; internet quakes out of lack of anything better to do
Various and sundry have asked for my reaction to a flailingly querulous I-hate-to-call-it-an-essay at a website called The New Inquiry. Said, no-I-won't-call-it-an-essay because it's more a...prose thing, yes, said prose-thing, entitled "Towards A New Film Criticism," authored by the evocative...
On the one hand: this article I never heard of before sure sounds like a load of old bollocks!
On the other hand:
Feisty young bolshie has brain fart; internet quakes out of lack of anything better to do
Various and sundry have asked for my reaction to a flailingly querulous I-hate-to-call-it-an-essay at a website called The New Inquiry. Said, no-I-won't-call-it-an-essay because it's more a...prose thing, yes, said prose-thing, entitled "Towards A New Film Criticism," authored by the evocative...
White's review is hard to read, he actually sounds borderline paranoid schizophrenic at this point.
"Jim" Hoberman begins his work day...
No links. I mean, enough already. Still, I couldn't resist this. Hat tip: a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, and is sprucing up her "Minion resume" as we speak.
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