For years promoting the U.S. releases of foreign films, again and again I heard them described as "quiet." Quiet and compelling. Quiet and taut. Quiet and affecting. It's no wonder so many worthy imports fail to reach a large audience. Who wants to spend two hours watching a lot of quietness - which ...
Watch this: I Am Not Your Negro
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin The hardest part about watching I Am Not Your Negro, easily 2016's best documentary and most essential viewing, is watching it. More than once, I cringed, winced, looked away, closed my ...
2016 [in Film]
As with last year, I don't really see the point in building any suspense when it comes to sharing my favorite films. It's not like you've been holding your breath, wondering what I'm going to say. (And if you have, thanks for being such a big fan. And sorry for the lack of ceremony here...) The ...
2015 [in films]
When you've seen 160 films in the span of 365 days, you'd think it'd be easy to pick your favorites. You've seen enough that the cream should theoretically rise to the top, leaving all the mediocre movies to fade into memory. I suppose when I get down to it, that's true. I can tell you what my ...
2015 [in films – documentary]
Of the 160 movies I watched in 2015, 44 of them were documentaries. That means that roughly one third (28%) of the hours of film I absorbed were factual accounts of the world around us. From finally watching 1990's groundbreaking Paris is Burning to cramming in as many of the Oscar Documentary ...
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