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  • Arsenic and Old Lace

    Arsenic and Old Lace (Not Rated)

    “What’s your favorite film?” It’s the question every cinephile delights to hear, yet also dreads. Delights, because finally someone made this social function less awkward — and besides, who doesn’t want to extol their loves before others? Dreads, because who can pick just one movie?

  • A Canterbury Tale

    A Canterbury Tale (G)

    In this strange season we currently find ourselves in, I occupy more time than ever before by reading books and watching films. A little over a month ago I watched something of a forgotten gem — British duo Powell and Pressburger’s A Canterbury Tale — and not a day has passed since that it hasn’t crossed […]

  • Roma

    Roma (R)

    One of the greatest strengths of film as an art form is its innate ability to create a sense of empathy. The most affecting films are the ones we relate to most closely, not necessarily because we sympathize, which is merely to feel sorrow for a misfortunate without ever truly understanding the deeper connotations behind it, […]

  • Cold War

    Cold War (R)

    Paweł Pawlikowski’s austerely beautiful Cold War begins with villagers performing a folk song about a man standing at his lover’s door, begging her to “open up.” This sense of longing courses through the film: to watch Cold War is to feel oneself hovering on the threshold of something mysterious, inaccessible, and slow to open itself […]

  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    Werckmeister Harmonies (Not Rated)

    “Space travel makes you realize just how small we really are. When you see Earth as a tiny blue speck in the infinite reaches of space, you have to wonder about the mysteries of creation. Surely we’re all part of some great design, no more or less important than anything else in the universe. Surely […]

  • The Lady from Shanghai

    The Lady from Shanghai (Not Rated)

    Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai begins with the sea, roiling and foaming beneath the opening credits. Many films noir are laden with existential anxieties; indeed, fatalism and cynicism are as commonplace in the genre as stylized lighting, bantering innuendoes, and convoluted crimes.

  • Control

    Control (R)

    I once spent an afternoon on Babblefish, inputting English song lyrics, translating them into other languages, then translating them back into English to see how they’d changed. Something hidden but true might be discovered within the English that would only come to light when the English was subjected to the grammatical rules of another language. […]

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