Kelsey

Kelsey

I'm a filmmaker in NYC by way of Paris by way of NJ & I like little movies about little people living little lives

Favorite films

  • C'mon C'mon
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Wings of Desire
  • Only Yesterday

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  • Mickey 17

  • Vox Lux

  • Blow-Up

  • Universal Language

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    Some of the most tasteful lamps in recent cinematic memory

  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    What a tragic polarity… each sees in the other what each has to give. 

    As an American of European Jewish heritage, I’ve always been wary of how we reach to understand historical pain. So hard to deal delicately with something so large, so beyond incomprehensibility, despite its undeniable presence in our blood and the soil of the land. Despite the fact that evil does have a human face after all. I understand Benji—how can we possibly be ever be Jewish,…

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  • C'mon C'mon

    C'mon C'mon

    ★★★★★

    Over the years, you will try to make sense of that happy, sad, full, empty, always shifting life you're in. And when the time comes to return to your star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world.

    happy, sad, empty, full. big, small, scary, safe.

    something intangible and completely magical is contained in the voice-over dialogue of a Mike Mills character. it's looking in at a little world, one you don't live in, but rather…

  • The Novelist's Film

    The Novelist's Film

    this is literally what networking in film is like