3 things about Steve McQueen’s SMALL AXE: LOVERS ROCK

Posted on January 11, 2021 by robchristopher

Small Axe: Lovers Rock [2020]

1. Flicking her cigarette at his backside.
2. “This is tea?”
“Jamaican tea.”
3. Time to wake up for church.

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3 things about Mike Leigh’s PETERLOO

Posted on January 10, 2021 by robchristopher

Peterloo [2018]

1. He’s crestfallen at not getting assigned to Ireland.
2. Sharing bread with strangers.
3. A horse tramples the infant.

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3 things about Wesley Ruggles’ I’M NO ANGEL

Posted on January 9, 2021 by robchristopher

I’m No Angel [1933]

1. The judge discreetly conveys a “don’t push it” message.
2. Beulah brings in a small tray with two tiny drinks on it and sets it on the edge of the piano.
3. “It’s not the men in my life, it’s the life in my men.”

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3 things about Steve McQueen’s SMALL AXE: MANGROVE

Posted on January 3, 2021 by robchristopher

Small Axe: Mangrove [2020]

1. A small hole in the toe of his sock.
2. Her unborn child.
3. She sings a few bars of “The Tennessee Waltz.”

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3 things about Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE LAST EMPEROR

Posted on January 2, 2021 by robchristopher

The Last Emperor [1987]

1. “I told you, I hate you.” The disengaged look on her face as the spy sucks her toes.
2. Beneath the sheets.
3. A cricket cage still hidden under the cushion.

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3 things about Howard Hawks’s BRINGING UP BABY

Posted on January 1, 2021 by robchristopher

Bringing Up Baby [1938]

1. The way she laughs.
2. Backless dress.
3. “Did we get across?”
“No, we’re right back where we started, only we’re wet.”

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A selected inventory of 2020.

Posted on January 1, 2021 by robchristopher

By the numbers …

207: feature films I watched in 2020 (10 of which I viewed in a theater)
47: books I read in 2020
29: pizzas we ordered from The Art of Pizza
86: mystery green statistic

Happy New Year!

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3 things about Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

Posted on December 31, 2020 by robchristopher

Where’d You Go, Bernadette [2019]

1. Star-shaped opening in the carpet revealing the green shoot of a houseplant.
2. Microsoft money.
3. “Interventions are above my paygrade.”

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Best films I watched for the first time in 2020.

Posted on December 31, 2020 by robchristopher

Years don’t matter any more, if they ever did. True is true.

CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA’S LOST ROCK’N’ROLL (John Pirozzi)
FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt)
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (Charlie Kaufman)
JASPER MALL (Brett Whitcomb & Bradford Thomason)
THE LONG WALK (Mattie Do)
PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
QUEEN & SLIM (Melina Matsoukas)
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Matthew Rankin)
THE WIND: A DOCUMENTARY THRILLER (Michał Bielawski)

I consider CITY SO REAL (2020, Steve James) to be a series, not a film, or else it would surely be on my list!

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3 things about Paul Thomas Anderson’s INHERENT VICE

Posted on December 29, 2020 by robchristopher

Inherent Vice [2014]

1. “Molto panacako!”
2. A bare patch on the sofa cushion’s vinyl cover.
3. “So, justice was served?”

3 other things.

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