Review - Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms and Mumon: The Land of Stealth
Back in New York. Watched two in-flight movies on the way over: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms - A beautiful animated fairytale...
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Back in New York. Watched two in-flight movies on the way over: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms - A beautiful animated fairytale...
Currently in Portland, Oregon for my annual trip with my college buddies. To kill time during the long plane ride over, I watched Neko...
Eager to make use of my MoviePass card before the service crashes and burns permanently, I ventured out to Metrograph to catch a...
Spent most of the day trying to decide what movie I wanted to watch. I’ve been running on fumes since Wednesday afternoon, so I was...
Caught a screening of Alexandre Rockwell’s In the Soup at IFC Center. I’ve been meaning to watch this since I first saw Four Rooms, the...
Just got back in from a screening of Mirai, the latest masterpiece from anime auteur Mamoru Hosoda. If Wolf Children represents the...
Logged on to Kanopy to watch Ida, a beautiful Polish movie about a young orphan who, at the behest of the Catholic nuns that raised her,...
I’ve been meaning to check out the filmography of Belgian director Chantal Akerman for quite a while now, so tonight, I popped in...
One song can save the world. At least, that’s the thesis statement of Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Fish Story, a film in which an obscure punk...
Logged on to Kanopy to watch Uzumasa Limelight, a beautiful movie about how the fickle entertainment industry occasionally leaves its...
Taking advantage of an unexpected day off, I ventured out to Metrograph to catch a screening of Filmworker, a documentary about Leon...
Ventured out to The Landmark at 57 West to catch a screening of Lu Over the Wall. This modern-day reinterpretation of The Little Mermaid...
Watched Woyzek on Fandor, continuing my long-overdue binge of Werner Herzog’s body of work. The director’s five collaborations with actor...
Watched Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht on Fandor. I’d actually already seen this remake of F.W. Murnau’s classic silent...
Logged on to Fandor to watch The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, a haunting character study about a mentally underdeveloped man in 19th Century...
I’ve been meaning to more thoroughly explore Werner Herzog’s eclectic filmography ever since I discovered Aguirre, the Wrath of God back...
After months of putting it off, I finally got around to watching Boiling Point, the second film by “Beat” Takeshi Kitano. While the...
I’ve decided to take a break from theatrical releases this weekend in order to catch up on my home video consumption. On today’s menu:...
Went back to IFC Center this morning to see Memories of Murder, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s 2003 police procedural—though that...
Went to IFC Center for a screening of The Villainess, an absolutely bonkers South Korean action flick about a young woman who has the...