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Saturday, December 31, 2022
Monday, December 26, 2022
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Friday, December 23, 2022
Author: Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood, a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. In 1913, Barnes began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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Monday, December 19, 2022
Friday, December 16, 2022
9/11 (2002)
A real life documentary following the events of September 11 from an insider's view, through the lens of James Hanlon and two French filmmakers who were in Manhattan that one day.
Remarkable documentary follows a full first-hand account of the events as they happened, including new insights and some unsettling personal drama.
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Monday, December 12, 2022
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
Arguably,
Werner Herzog's greatest masterpiece, this a hypnotic, almost surreal
tale of a downward spiral into an unknown void, full of breathtaking
images and sequences and a diabolically intense performance by Klaus
Kinski.
Halliwell****: "Absorbing conquistador melodrama, vividly assembled and impossible to forget."
Maltin***1/2: "Powerful, hypnotic tale...Dream-like film...Kinski is perfect as the mad Aguirre."
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Friday, December 9, 2022
Neko no Ongaesh (2002)
After helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life.
Wonderfully animated has fairy tale quality and is full of surprising and amusing sequences; enjoyable for kids and adults alike, and not just for cat lovers.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Monday, December 5, 2022
L'aîné des Ferchaux (1963)
Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.
Odd French road movie, which is staged mostly in the USA, has elegantly construed narrative, it's nicely directed with two good lead performers, but the protagonists are quite disagreeable characters, so that one hardly develops any empathy for them.
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Author: Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
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Saturday, December 3, 2022
Audrey (2020)
Documentary does attempt to give a comprehensive biography portrait of Audrey Hepburn, but actually doesn't reveal any new insight; the staged ballet sequences, however, are unnecessarily interruptious, superficial and quite off-putting.