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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Singer and february shorts
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Singer (1974, Chris Marker) It’s not a short (an hour long), but I have little to say about it, so this is a short entry. The movie’s probably of more interest to...
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Contagion (2011, Steven Soderbergh)
On the surface this was terrific, an expertly plotted thriller, more tensely captivating than any of the Ocean’s movies, with terrific music and excellent editing. But after giving it some thought and...
View ArticleTwo Days, One Night (2014, Those Dardennes)
Marion Cotillard has been on sick leave with the depression, returns to her solar-panel factory where the boss has decided that they got along just fine without her, so he’s eliminating her job and...
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Innocence (2004, Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Iris is brought to a spooky boarding school by coffin (it’s actually not that spooky, except for the fact that it appears in a strange movie called Innocence and people are brought there via coffin),...
View ArticleAnnette (2021, Leos Carax)
Brutish Adam Driver and delicate Marion Cotillard get together and have a magical singing baby, to the consternation of accompanist Simon Helberg – and it’s all performed as an opera written by Sparks,...
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