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ALL OF US STRANGERS

December 30, 2023 By Leave a Comment

ALL OF US STRANGERS

What is real? Is it the physical world around us that, as Lily Tomlin once put it, is really nothing more than a collective hunch, or is it the emotional world we construct for ourselves from memory, and pain, and hope?  Andrew Haigh’s enigmatic meditation of a film, ALL OF US STRANGERS considers just that… Read More »

Tagged With: childhood trauma, coming out, depression, isolation, memory, reality, talking with the dead

REMINISCENCE

August 21, 2021 By Leave a Comment

REMINISCENCE

There is a persistent torpor to REMINISCENCE, a film that tries to be many things and fails for the most part. Rife with visuals that evoke a disquieting dreamlike state, the story, an ersatz neo-noir set mostly between sunset and sunrise, drones along with the cinematic equivalent of a mosquito’s interminable buzz on a humid… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, dystopian future, femme fatel, global warming, memory, Miami, rising oceans

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL

January 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL

Click here to listen to the interview. Full disclosure, my sister, when she was 12, was in a film with Gloria Grahame.  It was a pretty forgettable horror film, and they had no scenes together, but it made for some nice small talk with Paul McGuigan before we settled down to our conversation about FILM… Read More »

Tagged With: Barbara Broccoli, based on a true story, cinematography, coincidence, Elvis Costello, Eve Stewart, externalizing memory, Gloria Grahame, Jamie Bell, Margaret Thatcher, memoir, memory, Paul Turner, privatization, rear-screen projections, romance, synchronicity, tap shoes, Urszula Pontikos

Laurie Anderson Shares the HEART OF A DOG

November 10, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Laurie Anderson Shares the HEART OF A DOG

Where oh where to start when talking to Laurie Anderson?  A performance artist, musician, actress, filmmaker, first NASA artist-in-residence, and all around great soul, she was in San Francisco to talk about her new film, HEART OF A DOG, a film that uses her dog Lola Belle’s life and death as a touchstone for a… Read More »

Tagged With: art, broken back, death, dog, empathy, FAILSAFE, home movies, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, memory, Mingyur Rinpoche, Mortality, music, NASA colorist, pets, rat terrier, rhizome, scratchy scarf, soundtrack

BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!

Guy Maddin’s BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! is such a purely, viscerally visual experience that, like trying to describe a dream, much is lost when trying to put the language of the subconscious into words. And that is what Maddin is working with here. Boasting no spoken dialogue, eccentric black-and-white exposures, he bills this as a… Read More »

Tagged With: black and white cinematography, Guy Maddin, lighthouse, memoir, memory, mother-son relationship, silent film, tortured sexuality

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