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Painting with John on HBO Max is the entirely unlikely, heaven-sent sequel to series to the cult classic Fishing with John. The new All Creatures Great and Small is playing things entirely too safe. It could have been generated by a BBC A.I. program based on what their older viewers want. Hilda Season 2 was just so-so for a while, but the second half of the season began reaching some of the glory of Season 1. Little by little, I'm working my way through Abstract on Netflix, which is a remarkable series of documentaries on creativity. Song Exploder's episode on "Losing My Re
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Haven't finalized the list yet — I'll post a more precise one soon: TOP TEN ALPHABETICAL Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Emma First Cow Minari Nomadland Portrait of a Lady on Fire Small Axe: Lovers Rock Small Axe: Mangrove Shirley Wolfwalkers NEXT SIXTEEN American Utopia Another Round Da 5 Bloods Dick Johnson is Dead Driveways Extra Ordinary Little Fish Miss Juneteenth Never Rarely Sometimes Always Rocks Sound of Metal Tesla The Invisible Man
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I'm interviewing Chad Hartigan tomorrow about his new film Little Fish. Has anyone here seen it yet? It's uncanny about how pandemic-focused this project was already before the pandemic hit. Anybody have a burning question for him? I'm happy to take suggestions.
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Gut-wrenching, stomach-souring, infuriating, like crawling through broken glass... this is one of the most difficult documentaries I've ever sat through. What I began to think was too sensationalistic, characterized by a spirit of vengeance, eventually justifies itself by broadening its scope to reveal the purposefulness within it all. It's a necessary film and I'm glad it exists. I wish I could remove the word harrowing from all of my previous reviews, though, so that I could more properly and powerfully apply that term here.
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I love this video and was going to share it today, but I'm realizing that it's really difficult for people to find a formal presentation of the list itself. The link given with the video is just artsandfaith.com. A newcomer arriving at the home page could have a hell of a time wandering around trying to find whatever we're considering the central publication of the list. Similarly, if I go to Ken's introduction to the list on The Porch, I can read that long essay and still not know where to click. So... forgive me if I've missed something obvious, but what link represents the
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It's great. (I saw it during a brief big-screen exhibition in Seattle earlier this year.) It's compromised, as each episode increasingly seems to be, by how fragmented the stories are becoming. But there is an emotional gut-punch in this once that was inevitable, and I have to stop there to avoid spoilers. Here's what I posted at Letterboxd.
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Thy Kingdom Come, a short made entirely from outtakes of To the Wonder, following Bardem's priest as he takes confessions that are actually true confessions, is now streaming on Kanopy and rentable elsewhere.
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The sale is totally on... and I am in torment. Too short of spending cash to participate this time. So many titles I'm drooling over.
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This EOB album is a lot of fun, although I'm glad that Radiohead leaves the lyrics to Thom Yorke. The rhythms and sounds here are very Radiohead, but the lyrics aren't nearly as compelling. When I first heard "Shangri-La," I thought I'd be buying this record on vinyl. After a few spans, I still like it, but I don't feel like I need to give it the deluxe treatment. Here are my favorite albums for 2020 so far.
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I didn't like Madelne's Madeline. Shirley, by contrast, is my favorite film of 2020 at the halfway point. My review is up at Looking Closer.
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Regarding the question of comparison — since I'm the one that was doing that most insistently in the Zoom discussion, let me clarify. I don't mean to say "I love A, and since B doesn't impress me as much as A, I don't like B." For me, it's more like this: "B left me curiously unmoved. I'm trying to work my way to why. It is styled like other films — A and C, for example – that really did move me. And it deals with subject matter that other films — like D and E — have dealt with, and those films moved me. I can talk about what worked in A, C, D, and E stylistically and substanti
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2020 Top 100 -- Discussion and Blurbs
Overstreet replied to kenmorefield's topic in A&F Top 100 2020
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I don't have Disney+ either, Beth. And the pilot episode to The Madalorian didn't persuade me to prioritize it..