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Tag Archives: Belgium
Review: Girl (2019)
My review of the Belgian film Girl – about a trans female ballerina – is now up at Rogerebert.com. It premiers on Netflix today. I cannot recommend it.
Review: Souvenir (2018)
Isabelle Huppert is always worth watching, even in a movie so slight it’s barely discernible. My review of Souvenir is up at Rogerebert.com.
February 2018 Viewing Diary
Supernatural, Season 13, episode 12 “Various & Sundry Villains” (2018; d. Amanda Tapping) I was happy to see that the series showed at least passing interest in the inner life of one of its lead characters. Six Feet Under, season … Continue reading
Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television
Tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Belgium, Bob Fosse, documentary, England, France, Ginger Rogers, Greta Gerwig, Iran, Iranian film, Joan Blondell, Kristen Stewart, Mervyn LeRoy, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, South Korea, Stanley Kramer, Steven Spielberg, Supernatural, women directors, X-Files, Zac Efron
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August 2016 Viewing Diary
My viewing this month was mostly work-related, so the viewing diary is uncharacteristically short. A lot of these I watched multiple times, for research, etc. And I’ve been ill, too, this summer. I just had no concentration outside of the … Continue reading
Rust and Bone: One of the Best Films of 2012.
Not a review. I repeat: Not a review. I’ve been writing this, a paragraph at a time, for over 2 months. It’s more like one of my SPN re-caps, where I go scene by scene exploring story and character analysis. … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Belgium, France, Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, reviews, romantic drama
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2012’s Rust and Bone: Four Motifs (With Overlap)
I’ve been working on a lengthy post about this great film, Rust and Bone, directed by Jacques Audiard. Figured this – a glimpse at the interconnected visual motifs in the film – would be a good teaser. One motif belongs … Continue reading
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Tagged Belgium, France, Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, romantic drama
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Review: Bullhead (2011)
Jacky is huge. A hulk of a man. Back muscles and shoulder muscles ripple and bulge as he shadow-boxes ferociously in the bathroom with sickly underwater-sea-green light, a room that is his private domain. Sometimes he climbs into the tub, … Continue reading
Marilyn Manson as Interpreted By a Scary Girl’s Choir
Scala / Kolacny is a women’s choir from Belgium. They’re fabulous, I have a couple of their albums. You probably remember their creepy cover of Radiohead’s “Creep,” featured in the first trailer for Social Network. While Scala / Kolacny don’t … Continue reading
“I think you can do your article by thinking about the film for yourself. I’m not the writer. I have already done the film—so now it’s your work.” – Director Chantal Akerman
The outpouring of loss in response to the death of Belgian experimental and influential (so influential that I think it will be a generation before we really can get a handle on it) has been intense and personal. People feel … Continue reading