Call Me by Your Name left me completely speechless. Sometimes when talking about a film I adored, like the best of people, I can exaggerate slightly and use figures of speech that are not entirely accurate or representative of what I feel or my actual response to an artistic work, and just serve to overhype…
Author: The Postmodern Pelican
Twin Peaks (1990)
Recently, visionary filmmaker and general artistic genius David Lynch made the bold claim to his belief that cable television is the new arthouse. This statement rings particularly notable when one considers that Lynch himself played a pivotal role in the development of television from merely being the realm of mindless comedies and predictable procedurals, and…
Faces Places (2017)
Agnès Varda is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. This is not merely an opinion, it is a well-accepted fact. A woman of diminutive stature that makes films that tower higher than the work of nearly every one of her contemporaries, and one of the sole female voices in the male-dominated world of…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
It goes without saying that it takes a masterful artist to reflect the dark nuances of humanity in a way that is endearing, hilarious and entertaining, but not dismissive of the subject at hand. Martin McDonagh, through both his extraordinary theatre work as well as his wonderful films, is one such artist, and with his…
3 Women (1977)
In his career that lasted nearly fifty years, Robert Altman directed over three dozen films, and while many of them have gone on to become iconic works of New Hollywood filmmaking, such a prolific career often leads to some films that are less than perfect, and sometimes even far too polarizing to stand alongside some…
Golden Exits (2018)
Independent cinema, as I have noted on multiple occasions, only grows exponentially as a movement every year, with budgets getting lower as concepts get higher. One name has always stood out in the modern independent cinema landscape for a number of reasons, Alex Ross Perry. A filmmaker who appears, on the surface, to be just…
The Florida Project (2017)
Visionary filmmaker and cinematic legend Pedro Almodóvar clearly has flawless taste, and when commenting on The Florida Project, he boldly stated that “Sean Baker is my bet for the future” – and this compliment from one of cinema’s most iconoclastic artists is not undeserved, as Sean Baker has proven himself to be a supremely talented…
Black Panther (2018)
Marvel gets its fair share of criticism, mainly from devotees of DC and those who feel that superhero films are not worthwhile entertainment. I understand, mainly because I used to be like that, growing tired and weary of the endlessly dull landscape of superhero films that contribute very little, if anything at yet. Yet, the…
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
They just don’t make films like The Philadelphia Story anymore, do they? A comedy that does not rely on gross-out humour, an enormously ambitious concept or visual flair, just an extremely strong story, featuring well-developed, interesting characters portrayed by magnificent actors at the very top of their game. There are very few films that fully…
The Disaster Artist (2017)
I consider myself to have good taste in cinema, but there is one film that I adore more than even the most prestigious cinematic achievement: The Room, a film I never fail to praise relentlessly whenever I am given the opportunity. I wear my adoration for The Room proudly, considering it one of the most…
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