So I made another ballot this year – this time picking the 75 best films of the 21st century (according to me). Similar to the Sight & Sound fan list I put together here, I had a rule of only one film per director to make it “easier” to narrow things down (and make someContinue reading “75 for 25(+1) – the best films of the 21st century (so far)”
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Words That Move – from the digital gatherings (April 2025)
More from the Words That Move digital writing sessions with Max Stossel. These are sessions where we talk for 30 min based on a prompt, write for about 35, and, if called, share for the remainder. WTM – 1/26/25 prompt: ownershiptitle: The Owners When he passed;QuickeninglyDid old testament callAnd those to whom he belongedCame forContinue reading “Words That Move – from the digital gatherings (April 2025)”
TIFF’24 – rewind to when my eyes were less-old
Always I fall way behind when I try to do an all-in-one recap of twenty or so films at once – this year is no different and I’m still a week late (and one of these has already released wide), but it helped that I took more immediate day-by-day thoughts. And thankfully my lineup deliveredContinue reading “TIFF’24 – rewind to when my eyes were less-old”
TIFF 2023 Recap – on the monsters, mothers, and murders (?) of the 48th annual festival
It’s been a good two weeks since the festival ended; I would’ve put these out sooner, but writing up the films I watched is taking me longer than expected (go figure). The bright side is there’s still a lot I fondly remember, and there are a lot of entries here I’d recommend checking out. AsContinue reading “TIFF 2023 Recap – on the monsters, mothers, and murders (?) of the 48th annual festival”
2022 – all the beauty and the bloodshed, and the best films of the year
Of the films I saw in 2022, about 100 of them can count as new releases specific to the year; that’s a depressingly large number, but I’d say most of them brought me joy, and that’s reason enough for me to think through and call out the 50 I’d recommend. First, the ones that IContinue reading “2022 – all the beauty and the bloodshed, and the best films of the year”
The Sight & Sound Ramble – picking my Top 100 Movies
Every decade, BFI magazine Sight and Sound publishes a list of the “Top 100 Greatest Films Of All Time”, polling hundreds of critics and filmmakers across the globe to come up with a would-be-definitive list of the medium’s most acclaimed achievements. Not part of the poll, of course, are the ordinary film fans who’re leftContinue reading “The Sight & Sound Ramble – picking my Top 100 Movies”
Words That Move – from the digital gatherings
With sessions supposedly about to start again soon, figured I should finally put down some of my favorite output from the Words That Move digital writing sessions with Max Stossel. In hindsight, I should have listed the dates for these – those I’m going to have to pull from memory. These are sessions where weContinue reading “Words That Move – from the digital gatherings”
2021 – the films that stayed with me
It’s never as much to fun read about movies as it is to watch them, so I’ll keep the spoilers to a minimum and hope you catch some of these that you might have missed. But they can be a joy to write about, and these 20 are the ones that most compelled me toContinue reading “2021 – the films that stayed with me”
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