3 things about Sean Baker’s TANGERINE

Posted on December 28, 2024 by robchristopher

Tangerine [2015]

1. “This one only has one shoe!”
“She’s from the hill, she’s a hillbilly.”
2. Sharing her wig at the laundromat.
3. “He doesn’t do my drugs.”

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3 things about Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR

Posted on December 27, 2024 by robchristopher

Interstellar [2014]

1. Points of light pinging across the the ship.
2. Cooper never loses his farmer’s tan.
3. Timothée Chalamet becomes Casey Affleck.

3 other things.

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3 things about Ernst Lubitsch’s THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

Posted on December 24, 2024 by robchristopher

The Shop Around the Corner [1940]

1. He proffers an over-large tip to the taxi driver, telling him to send his son through college.
2. A shattered lightshade.
3. “Do you like chicken soup?”

3 other things.

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3 things about Margreth Olin’s SONGS OF EARTH

Posted on December 23, 2024 by robchristopher

Songs of Earth [2023]

1. Surface of the glacier/the contours of her aged father’s skin.
2. “Home on the Range” but in Norwegian and with completely different lyrics.
3. Solitary flowers have the deepest hue.

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3 things about Garret Price’s YACHT ROCK: A DOCKUMENTARY

Posted on December 21, 2024 by robchristopher

Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary [2024]

1. MTV hastened the end.
2. An electric piano riff accidentally heard through a window. “Circus music.”
3. Questlove’s epic playlist honoring Anthony Bourdain.

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3 things about Todd Haynes’ CAROL

Posted on December 20, 2024 by robchristopher

Carol [2015]

1. Her supervisor officiously hands her a pencil and notepad.
2. Perfect lunch: creamed spinach on poached eggs with a dry martini.
3. “I can’t help you with that.”

3 other things.

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3 things about Alexander Payne’s THE HOLDOVERS

Posted on December 17, 2024 by robchristopher

The Holdovers [2023]

1. He loved Artie Shaw.
2. “You can’t even dream a whole dream, can you?”
3. After rolling down the window, he spits a mouthful of brandy onto the road.

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Coming in 2025.

Posted on December 17, 2024 by robchristopher

MY LAST MARTINI posterThere are certain secrets you only tell a complete stranger at a bar.

Coming in 2025:
My Last Martini, a new short film starring Wendy Robie and Mickey O’Sullivan.

Based on the story by Barry Gifford and filmed entirely on location at Bryant’s Cocktail Lounge, serving Milwaukee since 1938.

Produced by John Otterbacher and Aaron Wertheimer. Photographed by Christopher Rejano. Edited by Jon Gollner. Original score by CoastalDives.

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ROB’S BEST OF 2024

Posted on December 17, 2024 by robchristopher

Not necessarily released in 2024, these were nevertheless some of the songs I listened to all year long: a personal time capsule of the past twelve months. Enjoy. https://tinyurl.com/2024rb

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3 things about Leos Carax’s IT’S NOT ME

Posted on December 12, 2024 by robchristopher

It’s Not Me [2024]

1. Contradictions of Roman Polanski.
2. The second movement of Ravel’s final piano concerto.
3. Infrared cats.

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