Screening Notes #6

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and 2 (2010, 2011): I can't comment on the narrative content, because having seen these fi...

Midnight in Paris (2011) A Film by Woody Allen

I've been disappointingly slow in catching up with the latter half of Woody Allen's oversaturated directorial career, which seems to...

Record Club: Sam Amidon "All is Well" (2007)

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to. - Jean-Luc Godard Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that r...

In Vanda's Room (No Quarto da Vanda) A Film by Pedro Costa (2000)

Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room is a remarkable, all-encompassing portrait of the Fontainhas ghetto of Lisbon and the people who live...

The Silence (Tystnaden) A Film by Ingmar Bergman (1963)

Context has such an integral, inborn relationship to narrative that when it's stripped away, as it is largely in Ingmar Bergman's Th...

Almanac of Fall (1984) A Film by Bela Tarr

Just before Bela Tarr finally settled on the characteristic black-and-white, long-take formalism that he's become widely respected for i...

The Record Club #3: Sam Amidon "All is Well"

Two months ago, Ed Howard initiated The Record Club , a monthly series where bloggers gather together to discuss an album chosen by a host w...