Film

This deftly-adapted neo-noir is nothing short of a masterpiece Originally published on my Substack February 8, 2021 In a 2018 interview, the leftist Greek parliamentarian Yanis Varoufakis said it's impossible to be optimistic today given the utter lack of evidence that things will change for the better but

While often grotesque, this exquisite example of Cinéma du look x "Pygmalion" is strangely apposite for the post-COVID world we're stumbling into blinkingly. Originally published on my Substack June 13, 2021 Movies have been a welcome escape from the comfortable ennui of life under travel bans,

Denys Arcand is smart and so are his movies. Les Invasions is his Opus. Originally published on my Substack August 19, 2021 Arcand makes films like Mordecai Richler wrote novels: hilarious, self-referential, witty, daring, and il s’en câlisse if you don’t get the bilingual inside jokes. You would