Monthly Archives: September 2024

3 things about Julio Torres’s PROBLEMISTA

Posted on September 28, 2024 by robchristopher

Problemista [2023] 1. Take off the pants, take off the backpack. 2. Uncooperative Slinky. 3. She accurately points out his own insistence on complication.

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3 things about Frank Perry’s LAST SUMMER

Posted on September 27, 2024 by robchristopher

Last Summer [1969] 1. Truth serum. 2. Swedish movie. 3. Hotter in the forest. Devastating. The ways in which it constantly flips between being “dated” and chillingly timely are enough to give you whiplash. (Until this lost masterpiece gets a … Continue reading →

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3 things about Disney’s THE BLACK CAULDRON

Posted on September 26, 2024 by robchristopher

The Black Cauldron [1985] 1. Busty serving wench. 2. He preemptively chokes himself. 3. Skeleton army sinking back to death.

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3 things about Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE

Posted on September 25, 2024 by robchristopher

The Substance [2024] 1. Multiple pupils. 2. Chicken leg. 3. Music from Vertigo.

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3 things about Alex Garland’s CIVIL WAR

Posted on September 21, 2024 by robchristopher

Civil War [2024] 1. “What’s Joel doing?” “Processing.” 2. Literally, rose-colored glasses. 3. She clarifies: three hundred dollars Canadian.

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3 things about Marianna Milhorat’s JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH

Posted on September 18, 2024 by robchristopher

Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction) [2024] 1. Five uninterrupted minutes of listening for frogs. 2. A tidepool is a microenvironment. 3. Sitting in a chair amidst the tallgrass. A haunting, exquisitely made documentary centered … Continue reading →

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3 things about Roy Andersson’s SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR

Posted on September 17, 2024 by robchristopher

Songs from the Second Floor [2000] 1. Passing around a crystal ball. 2. A vast hall at the edge of which multitudes of teams struggle to move overloaded luggage carts forward. 3. Singing subway car.

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3 things about John Boorman’s HELL IN THE PACIFIC

Posted on September 16, 2024 by robchristopher

Hell in the Pacific [1968] 1. Devouring a raw fish. 2. Sand garden. 3. A discarded photograph of a young Japanese woman. Be sure to watch the “alternate ending,” which was the director’s preferred one.

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3 things about Lew Landers’ MAN IN THE DARK

Posted on September 15, 2024 by robchristopher

Man in the Dark [1953] 1. Surgical implements coming right at you. 2. Carnival ride shootout. 3. A slip of paper with 1133 written on it.

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3 things about Terence Davies’ THE NEON BIBLE

Posted on September 14, 2024 by robchristopher

The Neon Bible [1995] 1. He lip-syncs the introductory patter. 2. “Just a tooth. And her dignity.” 3. The most breathtaking sunrise in cinema?

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