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Obit 2016
This one’s pretty niche so I really can’t blame you if you don’t like it as much as I did. But I loved it.
It’s my favorite type of nonfiction—it drops us into a subculture that exists, invisibly, right in front of our eyes. At the start, you think there can’t possibly be enough to say about obituary writers to fill a feature-length doc. At the end, through tears, you just wish there could be even more.
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A Well Spent Life 1971
Wow. This is documentary as art. Nonfiction doesn’t need to be boring, artless, cut & dry, as this proves. I have to disagree with the reviews that call this a simple and calming doc—at times, this felt like a testimonial to the horrors of Jim Crow.
Yet, Mance’s story is one of resilience and the things that we need to get by in hard times (when we’ve got the blues). In one moment, Mance is telling us a story of…Translated from by
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Parasite 2019
Rarely does a film grip me so thoroughly throughout its entire runtime as did Parasite. It's the type of film you will hold your pee for and not even mind the discomfort.
Let's start with the elephant in the room—subtitles. When I told my parents I was going to see Parasite, they said they had heard great things, but didn't feel like seeing it because of the subtitles (Parasite's dialogue is almost entirely in Korean). While I understand the trepidation,…
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