Though the spectre of death hangs over the film from the first scene with the fortune teller, Varda's film is a summer solstice hangout film, where Cleo goes from one chance encounter to the next. In the first half, she's the object of desire, a pop star chauffered from shopping trip to cafe to apartment. In the second, once she rips her wig off and sets out into the city alone, more adventures follow, all against the backdrop of the…
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022
Half a portrait of photographer Nan Goldin, half a doc on Goldin's activities as part of PAIN, the activist group intent on getting truly evil pharma family the Sacklers' name taken off of any number of museums and art spaces where they launder their blood money. Poitras effortless weaves history and Goldin's raw recounting of her traumatic journey until both narratives feed off each other in fascinating, understandable, and inevitable ways. A brief glimpse of Ryuichi Sakamoto in one of…
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Black Mirror: Loch Henry 2023
So if the joke that the theme of previous Black Mirror seasons were "iPhones are bad," then two episodes in, is Season Six's theme "Netflix is bad and you should be ashamed"? If you're a fan of horror, then the "shocking twist" is guessable about 10 or 15 minutes in, and then the rest of the running time was me waiting for the inevitable to happen, and yes it did, because it feels very obvious that the mild racism and…
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Megalopolis 2024
Late-period, self-funded catalog of everything Coppola loves about cinema and creation, letting the IMAX image just wash over me, paying no heed to the convoluted yet-often conflict-free plot and indulging in the gorgeous spectacle. Freely quoting from Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Murnau, Laughton, a DMT-trip from grandad wishing that humans will make the world a better place after he's gone. Not as infused with death and mortality as his peers' films, this just be to America what Metropolis was to Germany.…
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