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Author Archives: robchristopher
How to maintain your film queue and sanity.
How can two people with strong, and often wildly different, tastes in film get along when it’s Friday night and time to pick something to watch? My husband and I have devised a system that allows for flexibility and variety. … Continue reading
3 things about Matt Wolf’s RECORDER: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project [2019] 1. “I’m surprised you didn’t call when Steve died.” (Steve Jobs.) 2. An interview with an anti-nostalgist. 3. “We shouldn’t ascribe rationality to those in power and irrationality to those without.”
3 things about L.Q. Jones’s A BOY AND HIS DOG
A Boy and His Dog [1975] 1. “Let’s get another Michael out of the warehouse. This time make sure the engineering department wipes that smile off his face.” 2. Being milked. 3. Charles McGraw in makeup.
3 things about Richard Fleischer’s SOYLENT GREEN
Soylent Green [1973] 1. The idea of maximum security farms. 2. White plastic pipe bookcases. 3. “And I get a full twenty minutes?” 3 other things.
3 things about Alfred Hitchcock’s SABOTEUR
Saboteur [1942] 1. Running into the bebop cat at the charity ball. “Beat it out, son. Beat it out.” 2. Curlers in her beard. 3. Perfect choice: a nasty soliloquy captured in a long shot. You don’t hear many folks … Continue reading
3 things about Luca Guadagnino’s CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Call Me by Your Name [2017] 1. Sounds of the peach. 2. He just shrugs. 3. “And before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at … Continue reading
3 things about Emilie Upczak’s MOVING PARTS
Moving Parts [2017] 1. Unintelligible whispers of advice. 2. “I’m sorry that your brother died, but this isn’t a hotel. Work still goes on here. Make yourself pretty and go upstairs.” 3. He raises the cleaver. An implicit threat.
3 things about Mati Diop’s ATLANTICS
Atlantique [2019] 1. Explaining how a corkscrew and a bottle opener work. 2. Virginity test. 3. “He doesn’t even know how to dig!”
3 things about John Dahl’s THE LAST SEDUCTION
The Last Seduction [1994] 1. “Just go away.” “I haven’t finished charming you.” “You haven’t started.” 2. On top, in control, pounding the roof of the car. 3. Quickly wiping her fingerprints off the can of Mace.
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