Tag: Romance
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Le Navrie Night (1979)
When it comes to art cinema, and slow cinema, I often think of an ideal viewer that must exist who is 100% alert and awake, and intellectually keyed into the symbolism and poetics that might take place. But then again, why should I judge myself against an ideal viewer that doesn’t exist? If you fall… Read.
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Modern Girls (1986)
Often described as L.A.’s answer to After Hours, Modern Girls (1986) feels much more indebted to the success of Desperately Seeking Susan as both are fuelled by a non-stop new wave soundtrack and boho club fashions. Taking place over the course of one night (a personal favourite sub-genre of mine), Modern Girls follows a quartet… Read.
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Anaïs In Love (2021)
Anaïs In Love (2021) played at festivals, if I remember correctly like the French Film Festival, and feels like it would have been overshadowed by The Worst Person In The World coming out in the same year. There’s a resemblance between the two leads – lithe brunette white women – and they’re both chaotic presences… Read.
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Chilly Scenes Of Winter (1979)
I really liked director Joan Micklin Silver’s Between The Lines, how much of a hang out movie it was, about a staff at a street press soon to be acquired by a corporate publisher. Silver’s next film, Chilly Scenes Of Winter (1979), is also a hang out film, except you are stuck with Charles (John… Read.
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Boom! (1968)
“What’s human or inhuman is not for human decision!” I love Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, and have always been curious about the other movies they made together, particularly when their tabloid exploits as a movie star couple overshadowed them. Most of them I’ve heard are not so hot… Read.
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