Watch List Digest 7/26/24
On demand: A Lily Gladstone starring vehicle. In Theaters: Powell and Pressburger's surreal cinema.
On demand: A Lily Gladstone starring vehicle. In Theaters: Powell and Pressburger's surreal cinema.
Lily Gladstone takes center stage in a reservation-set dramatic thriller, a festival favorite streaming on Apple TV+.
Just one this week, but it has two excellent streaming suggestions to while away your weekend: "Skywalkers" on Netflix and "Flipside" on Amazon.
Plus: The Watch List turns three! And, for paid subscribers, reviews of "Twisters" and "National Anthem"
VOD recommendations, a farewell to Shelley Duvall, an appreciation of Kevin Bacon, a version of a classic that changes everything you loved about it, and more.
For your weekend viewing pleasure, 10 good movies on Amazon, plus choice picks for other VOD plaforms.
You'll be hearing and reading a lot about "The Shining," of course, but it's Duvall's work with Robert Altman that will last.
Come to a screening and discussion of "Cinema Paradiso: The Director's Cut" Thursday July 11th at the West Newton Cinema.
Happy 66th birthday to the hardest working man in the film business.
My Washington Post reviews of new release movies for the week.
A stark, stunning documentary portrait of a Russian rebel artist. Plus: Weekend movie recommendations for streaming platforms.
The best guy-in-a-car movie of all time? Discuss.
Weekly Digest
Four movie reviews, a VOD tip, a Donald Sutherland farewell, and some musing on muses. Sorry, it was a busy week.
Directors
Maybe it’s time to rethink the way we think about muses.
Remembrances ⭐️
For paid subscribers, three movie reviews and an appreciation of the late, great Donald Sutherland. From the Washington Post.
What to Watch
Plus: Streaming movie recommendations and the five most overlooked Donald Sutherland performances.
One Good Film
Sofia Alaoui's impressive debut feature about an enigmatic and allegorical apocalypse comes to video on demand.
Zen Journal
(Backing into the Zen Journal after long silence.)
Weekly Digest
This week: Ten good-to-great movies that just arrived on Amazon Prime and a farewell to one of the great social-realist filmmakers in the medium's history.
What to Watch
Ken Loach's final film comes to VOD. Plus: Reviews of "Brats" and "Tuesday."
Good Movies 📽
You're in the mood for a decent film? Here are 10 that just became available on Amazon Prime.
Weekly Digest
This week join me for a trip down the memory hole with two films that evoke the vanished New York City of the 1980s.
One Good Film
Further time-tunneling into New Wave New York, courtesy of a lost interplanetary androgyne (no, not Bowie) and one of the author's favorite reviews.
One Good Film
Holy Pyramid Club: "Liquid Sky" (1982, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2) has surfaced on the Criterion Channel like a day-glo nitrous gas bubble from another era, and, as the film is unavailable anywhere else at this writing, I advise you to have a look.