Drama – Perisphere

The Museum of Home Video’s Ring, Ring: a Doorbell Cam Fantasia is Coming to Town! Some Context on Bret Berg’s MOHV from a Fellow Los Angeleno Who Witnessed its Inception

By Olga Tchepikova-Treon March 10, 2024 March 10, 2024 Uncategorized

A blurry black and white image by a door camera, showing a person dressed as a scary clown, holding three balloons, standing in someone's doorway, facing the camera.

|Penny Folger| The Museum of Home Video is an online streaming show that took flight during the pandemic and seems to have created an empire. Started by Los Angeleno film programmer/distributor Brett Berg, it takes place at museumofhomevideo.com at 7:30 pm PST most Tuesday evenings. Since its inception in July… Continue reading

A Whale of a Tale: Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies

By Olga Tchepikova-Treon January 26, 2024 January 23, 2024 Slow Cinema, Uncategorized

|Luke Mosher| Béla Tarr’s slow cinema masterpiece Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) is a bleak and beautiful experience. It is exactly the kind of film that repertory theaters like Trylon were designed for. During the nearly 2.5 hour run time, you can’t check your phone or get distracted by your dog; you must sit in the theater and reckon with it… Continue reading

Waiting for Something to Happen: György Fehér’s Twilight

By Finn Odum November 10, 2023 November 17, 2023 Slow Cinema

|Luke Mosher| György Fehér’s Twilight (1990) opens with an aerial shot over the forested Hungarian mountain Csóványos while an ambient song drones in the background like the hum of an airplane. On the ground below, two dark figures ride in the back… Continue reading

Hi Mom!: Smile for the Camera

By Finn Odum October 27, 2023 October 29, 2023 Cult Film Collective

Robert De Niro plays Jon Rubin. Standing in a bare-walled room, Rubin, a light-skinned man with medium-long brown hair, is adjusting an analogue camera’s position on a tripod, eyes fixed on the lens.

|Nick Kouhi| It’s easy to label Brian De Palma’s work as an extended exercise in voyeurism. But in a career spanning over half a century, the enfant terrible of the New Hollywood has transcended charges of Hitchockian pastiche with his perspicaciously (and…. Continue reading

The Loss of Posture in Picnic at Hanging Rock

By Finn Odum September 24, 2023 September 24, 2023 Peter Weir Series

Four girls in white dresses scale a wooded hill; the one of the farthest left of the image is wearing a sun hat, the other three are holding hands and are not wearing any hats.

|Yuval Klein| Three students and a chaperone at an all-girls college disappear during a field trip at Hanging Rock, an Australian former volcano that is 6.25 million years old. The repercussions and philosophical symbols entice viewers for the latter part of the film. Much of the film is… Continue reading

The Presence of Romantic Absence in Picnic at Hanging Rock

By Finn Odum September 22, 2023 September 24, 2023 Peter Weir Series

The Appleyard College students lounge at the picnic area by Hanging Rock.

|Sophie Durbin| I first learned about Picnic at Hanging Rock from the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (which I’ve been glued to for two years) and was instantly intrigued. I finally saw it yesterday after several failed attempts on Youtube. On a visual level, the.. Continue reading

Ice is Back With My Brand New Invention

By Finn Odum September 15, 2023 September 15, 2023 Peter Weir Series

Two children and two men sit in a jungle with a large covered object. The children are wearing beige shirts, and the adults are wearing yellow button downs with blue and white flowers.

|Lucas Hardwick| Beware: Spoilers Ahead. Believe it or not, instead of earning money by writing for a living, I actually have a real, honest-to-God day job of the blue-collar persuasion where I recently found myself engaged in the spirited pastime of bitching about work with a colleague… Continue reading

Mosquito Coast: Or, Man Absolutely Loses it in a Hardware Store

By Finn Odum September 15, 2023 September 14, 2023 Peter Weir Series

Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) is in a hardware store. He is standing to the right of the frame, staring at an old woman and an employee in a flannel. In between the woman and the employee is a black and white standee holding a Ninja chainsaw.

|Michael Wellvang| There’s something about shopping that makes middle-aged men snap. Maybe it goes against the whole hunter-gatherer thing where men kill and women do everything else. There’s nothing to hunt for in a store. Going shopping implies you don’t already… Continue reading

Fearless: Caught in the Middle

By Finn Odum September 1, 2023 September 6, 2023 Peter Weir Series

|Bob Aulert| Fearless defies categorizing. It delves into the metaphysical while simultaneously following a plot that could neatly fit into a Made-for-TV movie. Its protagonist lives in a netherworld that is neither Life nor Death, misunderstood by most everyone… Continue reading

Turbulent Epiphanies in Peter Weir’s Fearless

By Finn Odum September 1, 2023 September 1, 2023 Peter Weir Series

A hot Jeff Bridges glistens with sweat as he stares out a window. Isabella Rossellini pokes her head out from behind his shoulder.

|Kevin Maher| I was a frequent flyer throughout my career, logging more than 1 million miles on Delta alone. There were many flights that were so turbulent that I remember calculating which would be better: to crash in Lake Michigan, hoping for a ‘miracle on the Hudson’ outcome, or a… Continue reading

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