Movies

I took a few days off after completing “The Green Ray” and pondered taking a different direction in my next scene-by-scene movie analysis. I’ve decided to go with the 2022 film “Aftersun” by first time director Charlotte Wells. This is a departure for me in several ways. First, it’

For my next big project, I’m going to continue my slow speed chases through some more films that I love. I’m going to pick from my all time top 150 list, but I will come nowhere close to writing about all of them … we’ll see how much

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

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