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Los Muertos (2004; Lisandro Alonso)
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changing things up, gotta check in w/ a Kiyoshi that I haven’t seen in almost 20 years; nw
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With the release of "The Faust Bible," this Silent Sunday I have continued my investigation into the height of the great F.W. Murnau and whether or not he was, in fact, a giant. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com…
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Ahem: on @tender_subject, me, @ThisIsDaveMaher and @gabe_pacheco did a deep dive into Altered States. We talk about getting high, colonialism, the simian monster and the bliss of turning to sand with your lover. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
I wish we had a new Ken Russel movie to talk and argue about every month. Next month let’s all watch Altered States and come back here and argue it out.
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Wrote on Karthick Subburaj's best film - one that is rife with all his themes and aesthetics while pushing the boundaries of the masala form - for @InRO 's Tiff coverage. Replugging this for the film's netflix release.
'Karthick Subburaj’s films have been plagued by these very problems, in spite of his earnestness at confronting his cinephilia. An able genre filmmaker who began tackling social themes and subjects from his second film, Jigarthanda (2014), Subburaj has always sought to reconcile the macho forms of the films he loves — an eclectic mix which includes Tamil Masala cinema and dramas, martial arts and Spaghetti Westerns — with weighty themes of caste and patriarchal oppression that strike right at the roots of these very forms.' inreviewonline.com/2026/09/1…
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no other director better understood the abstract/alien quality of the american west like budd boetticher, this lunar dimension later perceived by baudrillard.
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'The idea of the “real” Elizabeth Holmes is a flag that Evans and Fielder, warring totems of professed trust and inherent skepticism, fight desperately to capture. It’s a concept of which Holmes herself is fiercely protective. She takes particular concern with a 2023 New York Times profile that, in response to Hulu’s The Dropout and a potential new biopic, quotes Holmes as saying, “They’re not playing me. They’re playing a character I created.” Holmes insists that the quote was a fabrication, that she and Evans recorded every conversation with the Times and can prove she never said it. Both the quote and its subsequent denial could well be You Can See Everything’s thesis: Elizabeth Holmes has been rendered — both publicly and internally — an infinitely layered construction of identity, a living dialogue of performance and interpretation that’s dizzied the notion of truth into ephemera.' Christian Craig on the movie of the moment: inreviewonline.com/2026/10/1…
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I managed to see a movie outside of a festival this month. I really dug WICKER. Like their previous film SAVE YOURSELVES!, Fischer & Wilson look at how outside noise can creep in on a relationship's vulnerabilities. Very weird movie (positive). For @InRO: inreviewonline.com/2026/10/2…
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The latest @InRO newsletter has, as usual, new reviews, interviews, and festival coverage, plus: a special announcement of new retrospective essays on the films of Lee Chang-dong. api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
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On our newest episode, Four Stars Special Correspondent Daniella Mazzio @DaniellaMazzio interviewed Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson, directors of Mouse (2026), which is screening tonight as part of the Chicago International Film Festival @chifilmfest: open.spotify.com/episode/6tU…
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Hexham Heads (2024): Superb, unsettling folk horror short told primarily in still images and showing virtually nothing. Atmosphere takes prevalence over plot, and manages some authentically scary moments. On Vimeo for free until Halloween (see below)
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To the extent these categories hold up usefully it’s as functional ones of how works ask to be engaged with. But even then the question doesn’t resolve itself into two categories called “narrative fiction” and “documentary film”
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fantastic new Sicinski piece on Structural Cinema and the MoMA “Long Live the Underground!” series:
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I'm excited to continue @InRO's coverage of the recent Long Live the Underground! program @MoMAFilm with an essay by Michael Sicinski on their strand of structural film from the 1970s. This was a pleasure to read and edit. Subscribe! api.omarshehata.me/substack-…
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You Can See Everything and All of a Sudden, two excellent movies about eye contact
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