Film Journal

The Chronology of Water

The audacious visual style is effective especially during the much too long first segment, but it wears thin and becomes an obstacle thru much of the film where it is unmotivated and the screenplay is dull.

Hadewijch

The non-professional actors are the perfect vehicle for Dumont's understated humanism. Dumont is at his most Bressonian here (although perhaps an antithesis of Mouchette).

Is This Thing On?

A separation is the inciting incident to the protagonist's becoming a stand-up comic, which itself becomes a way to start a new plot about the marriage-- feeling ultimately like a slice of life drama due to lack of narrative thrust. Even so, Will Arnett conjures an engaging performance.

Father Mother Sister Brother

There is a striking edit in the first segment: a cut to a medium shot of Jeff very briefly then cutting away as Emily starts to speak. It seems to imply he was about to say something-- typical of Jarmusch, this is unanswered but motivates several themes in the film.

Good Boy

Showing the dog's perspective is unusual, but the decision to shoot almost all of the speaking off-screen (or from a distance or backlit or obscured by a convenient tombstone) feels like it was motivated by shooting without a script more than to show the dog's point of view.

The Empire

This is closer to a parody of a Bruno Dumont film than it is to a parody of a science fiction film.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

The Plague

The Darjeeling Limited

The Cockfighter

Miami Connection

La Grazia

When Harry Met Sally...

Song Sung Blue

Oslo, August 31st

The Secret Agent

The Shop Around the Corner

Marty Supreme

The Housmaid

First Cow

Isle of Dogs

The Princess Bride

Inside Llewyn Davis

Barton Fink

Miller's Crossing

Hamnet

Lost in Translation

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

Peter Hujar's Day

Él

Bottle Rocket

Flux Gourmet

Sentimental Value

Jay Kelly

The Shape of Water

Cronos

Keeper

Deep Crimson

The Lovers on the Bridge

This Is Spinal Tap

Train Dreams

The Others

Die My Love

Bugonia

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Frankenstein

Nouvelle Vague

Blue Moon

Dracula

The Mastermind

It Was Just an Accident

A History of Violence

The Mastermind

Caché

The Birds

The Devil, Probably

Dial M for Murder

One Battle After Another

Metropolis

Hard Boiled

The Vanishing

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Him

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

The Long Walk

Code 3

A Better Tomorrow

Stand by Me

City on Fire

Peking Opera Blues

Splitsville

Caught Stealing

Chinatown

The Toxic Avenger

Bullet in the Head

The Balconettes

Eyes Without a Face

Shin Godzilla

Midnight Run

Drive-Away Dolls

Honey Don't!

Americana

Highest 2 Lowest

Le Bonheur

Went Up the Hill

Ebony & Ivory

Weapons

Ghost World

Kiss Me Deadly

The Big Heat

Cloud

Together

Blue Velvet

Sorry, Baby

Alps

In the Mood for Love

Eddington

40 Acres

Time Without Pity

Chronicle of a Summer

Barry Lyndon

Dogtooth

Hundreds of Beavers

The Killer Elite

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

Gap-Toothed Women

The Gleaners and I

Blow Out

Contempt

The Passenger

Le Million

The Ugly Stepsister

Down by Law

Revenge

King Lear

28 Years Later

28 Days Later

Claire's Knee

The Life of Chuck

Past Lives

The Godfather

Army of Darkness

Materialists

Before Midnight

Sister Midnight

Dangerous Animals

Before Sunset

Before Sunrise

The Phoenician Scheme

Bring Her Back

The Night of the Hunter

Clown in a Cornfield

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Donnie Darko

A Desert

Fargo

Vulcanizadora

Friendship

Queen of the Ring

Bringing Out the Dead

Wild at Heart

The Surfer

The Shrouds

The Ballad of Wallis Island

Sinners

The Sugarland Express

Misericordia

Mad Max: Fury Road

Princess Mononoke

Warfare

Trap

Death of a Unicorn

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Dazed and Confused

The Assessment

Unforgiven

The Actor

Black Bag

Hard Eight

Anora

Take Out

Seven Veils

Mickey 17

The Monkey

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Memoir of a Snail

Armand

Inside Out 2

Parthenope

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

September 5

Flow

Wicked

The Wild Robot

I'm Still Here

The Apprentice

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Conclave

Sing Sing

A Complete Unknown

Emilia Pérez

Brain Damage

The Girl with the Needle

Presence

Irrational Man

When Evil Lurks

The Vourdalak

The Brutalist

The Woman in Black

Nickel Boys

Kneecap

The Room Next Door

The Day of the Beast

MadS

The Last Showgirl

The Cremator

Die Hard

Woman of the Hour

Memories of Murder

Babygirl

Messiah of Evil

Nosferatu

Black Christmas

Last Summer

Queer

Anora

Heretic

Vertigo

MaXXXine

Red Rooms

Misery

Red Rocket

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