While just as visually inventive as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger at their best, Davies was not as prolific or acclaimed as the Archers. Though he more than deserved fame, he didn’t leap across the pond to Hollywood and secure household recognition like Alfred Hitchcock. Despite memorably adapting literary classics, his name has not become shorthand for a tradition of filmmaking like Ismail Merchant’s or his partner James Ivory’s. Perhaps because he mostly avoided social commentary, he didn’t win a…
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The Yardley Boys 2025
I was excited when I heard someone made a film in my hometown and downright thrilled when Aaron Bartuska's The Yardley Boys turned out to be a thoughtful film about growing up with a cast of recognizable, lived-in characters and a subtle emotional undercurrent. Check out the film on Split Tooth Media and read my interview with Bartuska.
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Another Sinking Sun 2023
Tyler Rubenfeld says making a film effectively means becoming several different people. One filmmaker writes, a more assertive one directs, and a more reflective final filmmaker finishes the edit. His characters, however, tend to occupy in-between states. They often straddle the waking and sleeping world and Rubenfeld not only blurs the line between reality and fantasy but between dreams and memories as well.
Another Sinking Sun finds Rubenfeld again placing his characters and his audience in a hypnagogic state, somewhere…
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Night Moves 2013
Cash, the poor person’s money.
Would make a great double feature with Buzzard. Reichardt is most often associated with Oregon’s forests and rivers, but nobody frames McMansions and strip malls better.
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Sink or Swim 1990
It felt as if the act of writing it down would make it really come true, so she used a pencil instead of her favorite cartridge pen.
This time, the structural similarities to some of Hollis Frampton's work reminded me why I adore Friedrich's work while merely respecting his.
While no less precise in its construction than (Nostalgia) or Zorn's Lemma, Sink or Swim is so achingly personal, so impossibly emotional, that one almost wants to read imperfections into it.…
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