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October 2025

October 04, 2025
I’m embarrassed to say I’ve not read an entire Thomas Pynchon book. Friends tell me...

September 2025

September 28, 2025
I’ve followed Eric André for a decade now, though apparently not closely enough. In 2021,...
September 24, 2025
Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) is a film beyond like or dislike, an...
September 13, 2025
In The Day of the Locust (1939), Nathanael West comments that the scraggly crowds of...
September 07, 2025
I had the honor (and a lot of fun) chatting with Twisted Issues (1988) director...

August 2025

August 30, 2025
It’s always a joy to finally watch a classic movie, one you’ve known about forever...
August 28, 2025
Sister Helen Prejean by way of Brecht and Kim Il-Sung, Death by Hanging (1968) is...
August 24, 2025
Subtitles do well with SEO, I’m told. So, there it is. But what can someone...
August 16, 2025
I am putting on my bullet-proof vest and requesting a firearm license. The night is...
August 11, 2025
I respect silent movies. But that’s about it. I’ve seen a couple dozen of them,...
August 08, 2025
We, or they, have canonized Yasujiro Ozu. If you’re 15 and tentatively adopting the moniker...
August 03, 2025
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (I do not know the man) believed in love. He believed in...

July 2025

July 28, 2025
Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid (2023) is a sickness unto death. Or, to roll with...
July 25, 2025
Ari Aster has cracked the code. Whatever your politics or your feelings about our “moment,”...
July 19, 2025
She’s a woman chopping up a bird, knife slicing flesh from flesh. The camera lingers,...
July 13, 2025
It’s a tale as old as time. People—sometimes crooks, sometimes friends, sometimes virtuous—come into possession...
July 06, 2025
I was six, going on seven for most of 2000. The millennium is a mystery...

June 2025

June 28, 2025
Confession: the only Sofia Coppola movie I’d seen until last week was The Bling Ring...
June 22, 2025
For those not in the know, If Footmen Tire you, What Will Horses Do? (1971)...
June 16, 2025
The way I see it, there are four ways to explain my reaction to Celine...
June 09, 2025
With thanks to J.G. Michel, host of the Parallax Views podcast, I have been taking...
June 01, 2025
If Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) can bear an explication de texte, I am not the...

May 2025

May 26, 2025
Late to the game as usual, I caught Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) yesterday. It’s already...
May 17, 2025
Based on a popular novel of the same name, director Eli Craig’s Clown in a...
May 11, 2025
Becoming a young cinephile in the aughts and early 2010s meant seeking out Larry Clark’s...
May 04, 2025
Or maybe you should? It’s hard to say. At only 1.5k logs on Letterboxd, Tamra...

April 2025

April 27, 2025
When I saw the first Paranormal Activity (2007), I knew it wasn’t real. But, at...
April 20, 2025
I hesitate to say the “movies are back” because I think anyone paying sufficient attention...
April 14, 2025
It feels bad to say, “it just didn’t connect with me.” Where there is technical...
April 09, 2025
There’s really no way to “review” Fight Club (1999), a movie at this point so...
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