The Feminine Grotesque #4: Madness, Thy Name Is Eve
A Series by Angelica Jade Bastién
Of Love and Other Demons: ‘La Religieuse’ (Jacques Rivette, 1966)
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
Review: Kent Jones’ ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’
“Although it contains very little new material, Hitchcock/Truffaut will undoubtedly find a home within the film education community and could become an important tool in introducing Hitchcock’s immense body of work to hoards of “uninitiated” cinema devotees.”
The Ugliness of Hatred: American Crime Story ‘Marcia, Marcia, Marcia’ (Recap)
“As tempting as it’d be to focus solely on the sexism in the trial, ‘Marcia, Marcia, Marcia’ ultimately works best as an episode due to its unwillingness to forget about race.”
‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’: Empty Empowerment
“It’s not a bad movie, but no matter how long it spends in the war zone, it still feels like a tourist.”
Review: Grímur Hákonarson’s ‘Rams’
“A great director can make us a care for characters wildly outside our realm of understanding, and Grímur Hákonarson may have proven himself such a director with his latest film, Rams.”
With ‘The Mermaid’, Stephen Chow Fully Utilizes the Camera as Comedic Tool
“Stephen Chow’s invigorating, irreverent, slapstick, but occasionally serious, comedy The Mermaid is an odd beast to pin down.”
Recap: Girls ‘Japan’
“Damn, this season of Girls is good.”
Recap: Vinyl ‘The Racket’
“This week’s Vinyl was actually good! Pop some champagne! Cut up some lines of coke on the desk! Cue the orgy!”
DMG’s Jeff Nichols RetroSpecial: ‘Take Shelter’ (2011)
A Jeff Nichols Retrospective by Dylan Moses Griffin
The Feminine Grotesque #3: Something Wicked – On Robert Eggers’ ‘The Witch’
A Series by Angelica Jade Bastién
Of Love and Other Demons: Nigel Wingrove’s ‘Visions of Ecstasy’ and Perverted Desire
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
Fair and Balanced: American Crime Story ‘The Race Card’ (Recap)
“‘The Race Card’ succeeds, perhaps better than any other episode in the strong season, by refusing to shy away from the hypocrisy prevalent on both sides of the O.J. case.”
Review: Luca Guadagnino’s ‘A Bigger Splash’
“A vivid and lavish feast for the eyes, A Bigger Splash takes an assemblage of indescribably talented actors and puts them in a pressure cooker of sex and vice.”
Glasgow Film Festival Review: Joachim Trier’s ‘Louder Than Bombs’
“Louder Than Bombs may be the first foray into (fully) English-language features for Norwegian director Joachim Trier and his regular screenwriting partner Eskil Vogt, but it absolutely feels like a logical progression of their impressive prior collaboration, the sombre Oslo, August 31st.”
Ryan Coogler and Black Intimacy
“Breaking the mold and raising his cinematic voice by embedding black intimacy in his movies, Coogler, in Creed and Fruitvale Station, uses mothers, girlfriends, children, squads of friends and Michael B. Jordan to create community.”
Cinematic Form(ation): On Identity and Form in Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’
“She’s created a dialogue, even a dialectic, of what kind of power identity has.”
Recap: Girls ‘Good Man’
“The series may not be as wild and crazy as its earlier and edgier self, but the even strain continues to fit neatly with the theme of maturation.”
Recap: Vinyl ‘Whispered Secrets’
“The thing about Vinyl is that, if it was good, the series would be a lot more fun to watch.”
DMG’s Jeff Nichols RetroSpecial: ‘Shotgun Stories’ (2007)
A Jeff Nichols Retrospective by Dylan Moses Griffin