25 February 2016

Streaming Suggestions, February 2016: Lior Shamriz, Gabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty

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For the next few weeks, you can stream some incredible works by a handful of visionary young filmmakers on Vimeo and MUBI. For a limited...
17 February 2016

Is It Still Light Outside?: The Knife’s Silent Shout, 10 Years Later

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  February 17, 2016 marks the ten-year anniversary of the release of my favorite album of the Aughts, one that has haunted me from my v...
29 January 2016

Best of 2015: Music

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I don’t really have any sweeping or acute observations about the state of the music industry in 2015, so here are some unrelated, purely...
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12 January 2016

Best of 2015: Cinema

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With each passing year, my annual lists (which seem to mark the only time I have in a given year for writing “for fun” about film) becom...

Best of 2015: Ten Honorable Mentions

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For fun, I’ve also put together a list of 10 more films that wouldn’t exactly qualify as numbers 11 through 20 of my favorite films of t...
11 January 2016

Best of 2015: Te prometo anarquía (Julio Hernández Cordón)

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Te prometo anarquía ( I Promise You Anarchy ). Julio Hernández Cordón. Mexico/Germany. If you held a knife to my throat and forced me t...
08 January 2016

Best of 2015: Nova Dubai (Gustavo Vinagre)

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Nova Dubai ( New Dubai ). Gustavo Vinagre. Brazil. When radical queers bemoan the rise in the gay marriage movement or the focus of ins...
07 January 2016

Best of 2015: Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro)

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Neon Bull ( Boi Neon ). Gabriel Mascaro. Brazil/Uruguay/Netherlands. What’s most impressive about Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull isn’t ...
06 January 2016

Best of 2015: Full Contact (David Verbeek)

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Full Contact . David Verbeek. Netherlands/Croatia. Working from an air force base somewhere in the Nevada desert halfway across the wo...