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Lurido

The Italian Connection (1972, dir. Fernando Di Leo)

Politically Involved Girls

Women in Revolt (1971, dir. Paul Morrissey)

Dare to Be Stupid

Ruthless People (1986, dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)

Featuring very special guest and world's nicest guy, composer of the theme song parody "Toothless People," Al Yankovic

Dreamtimes

Bedeviled (1993, dir. Tracey Moffat)

More Flaherty fragments

So many images.
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain),
Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind
...After He Left, Athi-Patra Ruga
Sonic Fictions, Grace Passô
A Space Exodus, Larissa Sansour

Flaherty fragments

I watched a lot of images in July. Here are some of them, from Public Service Announcement (Athi Patra Ruga, 2014). Watch the film here.

Faces Faces

From my summer of online movies.

Adventures in cinema: the bridge of sighs

Sometime during the endless stretch of 2020 I insinuated myself into a weekly movie night. There were some folks I knew, but others were glancing acquaintances or actual strangers. The same could be said of the movies we watched, which had in common only that one person wanted to share it (or sometimes subject us to it). A week ago was our season finale--until the inevitable reboots and prequels. And it happened that the world's vaccinated reopening coincided with my pick. Somehow, no one had seen it save me and it felt like a real To Sir, With Love moment, a valentine to the movies and to the people who love them.

Adventures in cinema: Meta Maggie

Center Stage (dir. Stanley Quan, 1991)

To celebrate the arrival of the Criterion edition of Irma Vep, I finally caught up with this earlier Maggie Cheung meta movie, a biopic of a tragic silent film star with a narrative design that has more braids than a bakery full of challah. It's so so achingly, very brain-breakingly beautiful.

Green Thoughts*

The Green Fog (dir. Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin, 2017)
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