BLACHEFAN Posted December 4, 2020 Author Share Posted December 4, 2020 THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (2020) Watch these two empowering real-life contempt-of-court docudramas together as a double feature. One goes back to 1969, when American white radicals actually had a sense of humor and used it as comic terrorism, and the other shows there was nothing funny about the West Indian immigrants who, a year later in the UK, refused to stop marching and kicked ****. Afterward, go out and film yourself getting arrested at a protest rally. Then you’ll be the best movie of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 4, 2020 Author Share Posted December 4, 2020 SMALL AXE: MANGROVE (2020) "Watch these two empowering real-life contempt-of-court docudramas together as a double feature. One goes back to 1969, when American white radicals actually had a sense of humor and used it as comic terrorism, and the other shows there was nothing funny about the West Indian immigrants who, a year later in the UK, refused to stop marching and kicked ****. Afterward, go out and film yourself getting arrested at a protest rally. Then you’ll be the best movie of the year." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 4, 2020 Author Share Posted December 4, 2020 AMERICAN MURDER: THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR (2020) "This doc has the visual goods to tell a hard-hitting true-crime story really well without cheesy reenactments, but what makes it even more powerful is how depressing it is for the viewer to discover the cute guy is the real killer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 Below is the link to John Waters' reviews without having to subscribe to the Artforum magazine website. https://joeclark.org/dossiers/johnwaters.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 THE ONANIA CLUB (2020) OK, I’m really going out on a limb here, replacing Pedro Almodóvar’s exquisite Parallel Mothers, a film everybody should love, with this loathsome unreleased feature everybody will probably hate. The Human Centipede director tops himself with a story of rich Los Angeles women who gather together to **** while watching news footage of the world’s misery. Often wrongheaded but sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, it has been rejected by film distributors worldwide. All I can say is that the movie sure as hell delivers. You will probably never be able to see it. Maybe that’s a good thing . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 SAINT-NARCISSE (2020) The Canadian punk queer director’s most successfully realized movie, elegantly shot and seamlessly put together. Think Vali the Witch of Positano meets twin Joe Dallesandros. Catholic, sexy, and oh so deviantly devout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 MANDIBLES (2020) The stupidest art film of the year, directed by a Gallic auteur who specializes in one-joke dumbbell comedies, about a giant fly and two French stooges, is also one of the funniest and most charming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) (2021) Beautifully edited from forgotten footage left behind in a lab, the so-called Black Woodstock concert film, originally shot in 1969 in Harlem, rises to the top of 2021 with a vengeance. The camera practically goes down Clara Ward’s throat to show us just where her great gospel voice actually begins. Wait till you see Nina Simone—never angrier! She’ll kick your **** and so will this movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (2021) Imagine, today, openly gay director Luchino Visconti being allowed inside a high school to parade auditioning half-naked teenage boys in front of him for his film Death in Venice. This harrowing documentary explores the perils of teen stardom for the kid who got the part and went from being the most beautiful to the most **** up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 ANNETTE (2021) The best movie of the year is an insane, over-the-top, and thankfully self-indulgent Sparks Brothers musical about an angry macho performance artist, his opera-diva girlfriend, and their daughter, who is somehow born a puppet. See it by yourself so no one you know can possibly ruin this nutcase masterpiece. Oh yeah—it’s really long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 RED ROCKET (2021) Shocking? Refreshing? The male gaze comes out of today’s PC closet in an incredibly well-cast tale of a washed-up hetero male porn star who goes back to his meth-head ex-wife and mother-in-law in Texas to start a new dysfunctional life. Finally, ****’, fightin’, and frontal nudity are back on the art-house screen, where they belong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 FRANCE (2021) This psychological study of a fictitious popular female newscaster may start out conventionally, but the assured director’s long pauses and cruel plot twists quickly turn a quasi attack on the media and its ravenous consumers into a searing critique of both the tedium and the emotional risk of living in the public eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 VORTEX (2021) The director’s most humane and unironic yet scarily claustrophobic feel-bad drama about death is filmed in split-screen Duo-Vision, so be prepared for twice the disturbing power of his other cinematic shockers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (2021) If Ingmar Bergman came back from beyond the grave today to direct Shakespeare on film, this is what it would look like. Kathryn Hunter as all three of the witches has to be seen to be believed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACHEFAN Posted December 2, 2021 Author Share Posted December 2, 2021 PARALLEL MOTHERS (2021) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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