( full review)įalling in love with a robot isn’t good news, as Her and Blade Runner (both 20) tell us. A mystifying follow-up working again to question and depart from an anthropocentric perspective, here comes Gunda, a black-and-white, dialogue-free documentary chronicling a few months in the lives of the animals stranded in a Norwegian farm. Water, art-speak waffle as it may sound, served as Aquarela’s only protagonist: in that hyper-high-definition blue canvas, human faces seldom popped up, and voices were seldom heard, as Kossakovsky’s focus centered squarely on his liquid star alone. In 2018, Victor Kossakovsky set out to shoot Aquarela, a survey-symphony that took the Russian documentarian around the world to capture glaciers, waterfalls, frozen lakes, oceans, and storms. Sachs jumped in to discover truths surrounding her childhood only to fall through numerous false bottoms that revealed truths she couldn’t even imagine.” ![]() Whether it began that way or not, however, it surely didn’t take long to realize how deep a drop the rabbit hole of his life would prove. With thirty-five years of footage shot across varied formats and devices to cull through and piece together, the result becomes less about providing a clear picture of who this man is and more about understanding the cost of his actions. Jared Mobarak said in his review of her latest feature, “While director Lynne Sachs admits her latest documentary Film About a Father Who could be superficially construed as a portrait (the title alludes to and the content revolves around her father Ira), she labels it a reckoning instead. ( full review)įilm About a Father Who and More Films by Lynne SachsĪlong with her new documentary Film About a Father Who, The Criterion Channel is featuring seven shorts from director Lynne Sachs, including Which Way Is East (1994), The Last Happy Day (2009), Wind in Our Hair (2010), The Washing Society (2018), Girl Is Presence (2020), E As the kind of guy who still finds slow-motion gunfights cool a full three decades after Hollywood caught wind of Hard Boiled, it’s nice he at least believes in a tangible, quasi-human cinema. Operating well past the point where dozens upon dozens of Tarantino knockoffs were inescapable on video store shelves and in shoebox auditoriums across America, he seems, if anything, intent on morphing the ’90s aesthetic into a new form of classicism for the 21st century. It’d be hard to argue Joe Carnahan isn’t permanently stuck in 1997. In Censor, however, the nasties are homegrown, in more ways than one. Not all were UK productions–– I Spit On Your Grave and Abel Ferrara’s Driller Killer made the list. ![]() These were the low-budget, ultra-violent VHS cassettes that earned their own category in the collective consciousness. It is 1980s England, the time of “video nasties” that drew parental consternation and tabloid outrage. ![]() It is hard to think of a recent horror film––or a film of any genre, really––in which the main character is tasked with a job as original and ingenious as Enid Baines, the protagonist of Prano Bailey-Bond’s riveting Censor. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States.
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