While waiting forever for my AMC theater movie to start today, I saw a series of movie trailers, things I usually enjoy on some level. But I was annoyed to see that two of the movies had the same sappy tagline — Dream Big. This is a phrase I heard earlier
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A weakness of movie criticism is that one is expected to capture the essence of a film on a single viewing in some solid, permanent manner. Now that I’ve worked through several long-form studies of films in very short bites at a time, I notice the pitfalls of the
I’m in a mood these days to make a brief return to Montaigne and to reconsider his thoughts on solitude, both for the ways I agree and disagree with him. Instead of diving into his full, sprawling essay on solitude, I’m going to unpack this paragraph: “Seek no
Over the last month, in addition to writing full treatments of two Kieslowski movies, I have watched an astounding 61 movies, just under two per day. This includes 13 movies watched in theater (10 at the Chicago International Film Festival) and a nearly endless string of streamed movies on the
While the segment by segment part of my Kieslowski project has come to a close, I still have a lot of work to put in before I’m ready to publish it all in a book. Part of this will happen out of sight of this webpage — I’ll be
It’s universally acknowledged as a great film ending, but there are some strange elements in the conclusion to “Three Colours: Red” that need to be addressed upfront before I describe it. The first is that it works even if you haven’t seen any Kieslowski film before — including the