Movies

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

So far I have seen six films at the Chicago International Film Festival and have four more to see before the festival closes on Sunday. My one disappointment is that I likely will not have an opportunity to catch “Resurrection,” a highly acclaimed Chinese film. I believe the film has

I’ve written about Diane Keaton before in the context of “Annie Hall,” and perhaps “Reds” as well, but I can’t say enough about just how great an actress she was. I think I just have to show clips. This first from “Love and Death.” No one could take

The new Paul Thomas Anderson film “One Battle After Another” opened to rave reviews and is being talked about as an Oscar frontrunner. A story in Variety today hailed it as the rare movie that might break into the national cultural and political conversation, mostly for the way it “exposes

Building off of my essay on eros, centering on the philosophy of Byung-Chul Han, I came across this quote from him today: Depression can be understood as a pathogenic development of this modern ontology of the self. It is, as Alain Ehrenberg puts it, fatigue d’être soi tiredness of

Movie star, Oscar winning director and godfather of American independent cinema Robert Redford died today. As a bit of coincidence/synchronicity, I finally got around to seeing Redford’s 1972 romantic comedy “The Way We Were,” co-starring Barbara Streisand, this weekend. It was a very strange film — basically a leftist