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Jan 20, 2021

Only a few years late, I wrote on Twin Peaks: The Return, attempting to do justice to its achievement. It's easily the longest, most considered thing I've ever written so, needless to say, I put a lot in it, so please give it a read/share/etc.

The Word Viewed—A Reading of "Twin Peaks: The Return"

Chris Marker on "Vertigo," Destiny-Machines & Dream Factories, Mapping Consciousness, Michael Snow, Laurel & Hardy, Video Games, Hidden Literality, and other related matters.

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Reposting this since the film is finally getting a theatrical screening

@TIFF_NET

today.

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Jul 17, 2021

Reviewed The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), and got into some more general critical questions that I've been interested in as of late. In any case, the film is well worth engaging with. See it in a theatre if you can. twitter.com/reverse_shot/s…

Oct 27

Fondly recalling when I rewatched Phoenix, gave it a middling rating on Letterboxd, then got DMs from three separate people asking me to explain myself. (I like Transit and Petzold's Dreileben movie.)

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The Empty Nayman

@brofromanother

Oct 26

Lecturing online tonight about PHOENIX, for me one of the only perfect narrative features of recent years.

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Oct 22

TÁR just made me want to rewatch De Palma's Passion...

Review of ‘A Simple Event’ (1974) ★★★★½

Oct 20

Thought at first it was intentional, but wasn't so sure by the end. Is it possible the KG uploader messed up the reel ordering when removing the commercial breaks?

Question for those who've seen Saless' Still Life: Do you recall an odd discontinuity around the son's visit? In the copy I watched, the visit from the two men buying the carpet comes in between the son's arrival and the family's dinner together.

Fwiw:

What are the conditions of minimalism? Or, to be more precise: what are the conditions of presentation necessary to prevent an action or incident from emerging as a genuine (dramatic) event? The…

Uploaded it for a friend, so if anyone's interested: wetransfer.com/downloads/696b

I'd put off watching any Saless films for so long because the quality of what's available online isn't great, but I'm glad I finally pushed myself to see A Simple Event (1974), which is just remarkable.

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tweeting from here tonight

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Oct 6

On Cyril Schäublin's UNREST, the creation of unified time, the twin drives towards efficiency and anarchy. #NYFF60. Review by

: reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/

Here's my

interview with

from earlier this year, when the film premiered at Berlin.

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Glitch in the System: Ashley McKenzie Discusses “Queens of the Qing Dynasty”

The Canadian director talks about her second film, an empathetic portrait of friendship and struggle within government institutions.

Strong recommendation for Ashley McKenzie's Queens of the Qing Dynasty, which has one more VIFF screening tomorrow, October 7. Second viewing moved it up to the top of my 2022 list.

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Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Vancouver International Film Festival

Recovering from a suicide attempt, a neurodiverse Cape Breton teen is drawn into the orbit of a genderqueer hospital volunteer who hails from Shanghai. Despite their disparate backgrounds, the pair...

For

, I wrote on Bonello's very good, very discombobulating Coma.

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Oct 3

"In placing us so fully within the complexities of the COVID-era present, COMA reveals our very inability to unify it in thought." @lawrencengarcia on Bertrand Bonello's latest for #NYFF60. reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/

Oct 1

(Also, apologies for all the plot description in the Walk Up review, but I've just seen one too many accounts of the film that don't acknowledge that anything strange at all happens, so it seemed worth drawing out. In any case, just beautifully structured.)

In here on the superb new Hong (my favourite since Yourself and Yours) and Trenque Lauquen.

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In Review Online

@InRO

Oct 1

.@TheNYFF day 2 & we've got 5 films today, most major recs: - #WalkUp & #TrenqueLauquen — @lawrencengarcia - #StarsAtNoon — @PatrickPreziosi - #SaintOmer — @igorfshman - #SlaughterhousesofModernity — @zwlws ^Follow link for ^these + all #NYFF60 reviews. inreviewonline.com/tag/nyff22/

If anyone wants it: we.tl/t-0r9yJ0jswk

Really impressed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's Matinee (1977), which made me think a lot about A High Wind in Jamaica. Not many films that manage to portray the subjectivity of children in quite this way.

New issue! Got to indulge an extended Henry James comparison in my essay on Michael Roemer's superb Vengeance Is Mine (print only).

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Cinema Scope

Sep 30

Cinema Scope 92 online at cinema-scope.com

Sep 28

It's just like that scene from Outside Noise.

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The Empty Nayman

@brofromanother

Sep 28

I take it all back, Alejandro owns twitter.com/rafaelmtzgarci…

Sep 23

Looks like I still have this uploaded for when I sent it to a friend, so if anyone wants to see this. drive.google.com/file/d/1pq7FJ9

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patrick preziosi

@PatrickPreziosi

Sep 23

La pasión según Berenice (Hermosillo, 1976)

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Sep 21

Thought for a while that Shinji Sômai's Kaza-hana was up to some really amazing play with chronology - first 40 minutes felt like Je t'aime, je t'aime - and I guess I'm still not fully inclined to take the road trip at face value. Not sure if others feel similarly.

Sep 15

Just watched (and loved) The Passion According to Berenice (1976)... Anyone have writing on Hermosillo?

Sep 9

8k words into a paper... Need to finish writing before the inevitable "this is all stupid" feeling sets in.

Good movie! See the film if you can.

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Reverse Shot

Sep 1

"The clarity of his images is matched only by the spectral force of the gaps between." We very highly recommend Ricky D'Ambrose's THE CATHEDRAL, opening this week. Here's @lawrencengarcia's interview with the filmmaker: reverseshot.org/interviews/ent

Aug 15

This, but about NOBODY'S HERO. (Maybe not Guiraudie's best, but I don't get the tepid response. Very much in the vein of THE KING OF ESCAPE.)

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Michael Is Dead

@AcademicHack

Aug 14

Given the fact that NYFF passed on PASSENGERS OF THE NIGHT, every one of those Main Slate pictures must be a goddamned masterpiece.

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Kurt Walker

@kurt__walker

Aug 4

The North American premiere of I THOUGHT THE WORLD OF YOU will be

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Wavelengths

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Jul 19

If this is you, consider consulting wikiHow, apparently (h/t

@JoshCabrita

Spoilers for THE PROWLER. I watched this with Josh. Please vindicate me by telling him this plot read is kinda nuts.

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Josh Cabrita

@JoshCabrita

Jul 17

Anyone out there seen Losey's THE PROWLER? I'm not insane for thinking Susan is not actually pregnant and the second half is a kind of reverse gaslight scenario, where she plays on the fear of women of the fairly explicitly queer coded Webb, right?

Cinema Scope

Cinema Scope Magazine for film reviews, criticism news & comment

Jul 2

Cinema Scope 91 online now at

cinema-scope.com

The official website of Cinema Scope Magazine, one of the most respected publications on film, festivals, directors, books, DVDs, and more.

Jul 2

For the latest issue of

Wippet Good: A Conversation Between Don McKellar and David Cronenberg on "Crimes of the Future" -...

, I wrote on Crimes of the Future (2022) ahead of a great interview with Cronenberg by Don "Wippet" McKellar. Alternate title: "Creative Evolution."

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David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future may be marked as a “return” for the 79-year-old director in a number of respects. His first feature in eight years, it is also his first to be based on an...

Jul 2

Sharing this again since The Passengers of the Night (2022), Hers' latest, opens in Canada today.

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Apr 1

For the latest @CinemaScopeMag, I wrote on the films of Mikhaël Hers. cinema-scope.com/features/wakin

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Cinema Scope

Jun 21

Cover, Cinema Scope 91, coming soon. Featuring a conversation between Don McKellar and David Cronenberg, Cannes reports and much more! Subscribe now to get it first cinema-scope.com/subscriptions

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