Capsules on Misericordia, Mizoguchi's entrancing Princess Yang-Kwei Fei, Elaine May's great Mikey and Nicky and Becker's Montparnasse 19 to finish the year.
Capsule Corner #4: Love and Death
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With all the lists going around, I have written about Reichardt's use of genre tropes to introduce tensions between her protagonist and the landscape in one of the year's best films.
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Happy to work with @tothehappynone.bsky.social
on one of my favourite American films, one that interrogates our cherished beliefs about recorded realities through genre frameworks and tropes.
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On Ordet, miracles in cinema, and Dreyer's interrogation of faith through its collision with "rationality".
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Thanks Elena! It was great working with you as well.
I loved working with @anandsudha.bsky.social on this piece, whose publication fittingly, but unintentionally coincides with Peter Sellers' centenary this month.
A long gestating article on engaging with problematic art, specifically, The Party, through my Indian lens that couldn't stop squirming at Peter Sellers in brownface. Happy to have this published at @animusmagazine.bsky.social and thanks to @elazic.bsky.social for her helpful suggestions!
TIFF uploaded a trailer today for a documentary about a former IDF general rescuing his family on October 7, even though it wasn't in their TIFF Docs press release and there isn't a film page on their site. They made the video private but the trailer can still be viewed here:
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