Reality (Matteo Garrone) is one of those films that stayed with me after my first viewing of it, grew in potency as I thought about it more, and, then, after…
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Category: Important Political Films
A Brief Thought on Sofia Coppola To my mind, Sofia Coppola is one of the most underrated contemporary filmmakers creating films today. Excepting the highly lauded Lost in Translation, my…
(I posted this post a few years ago; I thought I would revive it for the Christmas season.) Every Christmas, we get the token churning out of Frank Capra’s classic…
NOTE: First, this essay is an expansion of a blog post I wrote on Snowpiercer. Second, as I say, this isn’t a blog post but rather one of my academic…
NOTE: This isn’t a blog post but rather one of my academic essays. I hadn’t intended to post any of my academic essays on my blog (this is the second…
If you still haven’t seen Disconnect (it had a limited release so I suspect it has flown under the radar for many), do yourself a favor and check it out,…
Despite a couple of moments in the film that I had issues with, overall, I loved Captain Fantastic, a refreshingly transgressive mainstream film that is both thoroughly thought provoking political…
For me, the power of In the Fog (2013, Sergei Loznitsa) – a gritty, raw film depicting the painful brutalities and atrocities during Germany’s occupation of the territory of Belarus…
Disturbingly, Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency suggests a sociopathy in America, making the film (and novel) American Psycho even more relevant today. As I’ve said elsewhere (see my horror…
Strikingly, Bulworth prefigures the rise of Trump but more importantly enlightens us on the corporate takeover of our democracy and a way out of this corporatocracy. In this extraordinary year…