Categories for Film

Les destinées sentimentales (2000) – Good – An audacious 3h film that really starts at about the 90th minute

demonlover (2002) – Great – Modernism redefined for a new century

Clean (2004) – Great – The most musical film of a most musical filmmaker (more…)

Attack of the Clones soared when its heroes discovered a hidden planet by challenging mainstream knowledge and using independent thought. They dug deeper and pulled the veil off the official version. Miserable, focus-group, committee-driven Rogue One is the polar opposite. Lacking personality or incentive for creative thinking, it unfolds like a programmed checklist of flat motivations, a few isms du jour and glossed-over political issues. Feminism for X points, multiculturalism – Y points. Calculate the balance. Profit. (more…)