It’s Top 10 season! We’ll be posting our favorites from 2015 later this week, so stay tuned! In the meantime, here are some lists we like, unranked: The ultimate list of Overlooked films – Indiewire’s annual compendium of undistributed films, hopefully coming to a theater near you in 2016… Without fail, every year MUBI Notebook’s...
ICYMI Monday: Bad wives, breakups, Notting Hill
On bad wives. Unseen treasures from a genius to play in New York. Our favorite podcaster talks with our very own Jinnie Lee! Authorship re-examined. Feelings externalized on screen. And more on Mulholland Drive. Garol.
ICYMI Tuesday: Art House, Exploding Heads, and Ben Affleck’s Dope New Car
SARAH’S LINKS: Monte Hellman on painting, his creative process, and breaking the rules. Oscilloscope kicks off their new column of film writing with this piece on The Honeymoon Killers from Scott Tobias. On that note, it’s worth checking out Alleluia, a stylish update of the same story from Belgian button-pusher Fabrice De Welz. “Wax drippings...
ICYMI Tuesday: A Weekend at the Beach
We hope you had a wonderful weekend at the beach just like Godard and Alice Waters did in this film by video artist Ira Schneider. Vanessa McDonnell’s John’s of 12th Street documents the East Village restaurant of the same name, instilling hunger and a nostalgia for all those great old places where ambiance and...
ICYMI Monday: Thinking about Movies with David Byrne and Books with Don Draper
David Byrne tells us all about exciting and overwhelming upcoming releases in this performance piece c/o Filmmaker Magazine. With the premier of the second round of HBO’s True Detective just around the corner, we have to put our bets in for this year’s truest detective. Dazed Digital pulls together a compendium of some of the best...
ICYMI Monday: He-he-hello!
Some links to improve your Monday: He-he-hello! Parker Posey on that white brocade suit, etc. “It feels natural to erase or smooth the borders between documentary and fiction” -Vannessa McDonnell interviews Agnès Varda for Screen Slate. Extended Play has an interview with documentarian Sam Green, whose live documentarties are breaking boundaries and taking a new approach to old...