My 2022 deep dive into Italian neorealism continues. Rossellini and Visconti in the bag, closing the holy trinity now with…
Luchino Visconti
There may not be a fiercer, more bewildering paradox than Luchino Visconti. Born into the Italian aristocracy yet committed to…
David Cronenberg
My man DC, the master of body horror, the surgeon of the flesh! Always finding ways to link the visceral…
Mike Leigh
Leigh's worldview is largely economic, visualized in survivalist terms where resources are scarce, desperation is thick, and the reality of…
Asghar Farhadi
Farhadi is a surgeon of the written word.
He anatomizes human relationships, peels back layers upon layers of private pain,…
Robert Eggers
I'm putting Robert Eggers next to Ari Aster and Jordan Peele as the debutants of present-day horror films to keep…
Derek Cianfrance
Come for the misery, stay for the existential meditations. Consequences for one's actions always ripple between generations. Derek Cianfrance, the unsung…
Roberto Rossellini
The father of neorealism has an artistic arc unparalleled by any of his contemporaries. He started out in the early…
Michael Haneke
Haneke opened my eyes to a critique of middle-class bourgeois families and the way this group historically developed a crisis…
🔥Hot Take🔥 People Love These Movies. I Don’t.
What are some films everyone around you loves but you either [hate / dislike / can’t connect to / feel…
🔥🔥Sundance 2022🔥🔥
This will be my 21st Sundance Film Festival 😎 (January 20-25). Docs and other titles will be added as I…
Federico Fellini
Fellini's strongest period of filmmaking was during the 50s when postwar Italy sunk deep on the auteur's shoulders. He was…