I went back to one of my all-time favorites, Nicholas Ray's 1951 film On Dangerous Ground. It's not a perfect film by any means. But in the first half-hour, Robert Ryan gives one of the great bad cop performances of all time. The funny thing...
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We started 2025 in this series with Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, a brilliant, if messy, satire of modern Romania through the eyes of a teacher whose.
Last night, I watched Amalie Rothschild's 1972 documentary It Happens to Us, which is a series of interviews with women who underwent illegal abortions. After its release, Rothschild put a.
Because I curate my film watching pretty carefully, I usually end up liking the films I watch. But it's always useful to discuss a film I didn't care for much. This leads us to Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 2015 attempt to combine a wuxia film with his...
I moved to Albuquerque 25 years ago this summer. Crazy. One of the first places I discovered there was Alpahville Video, your classic arty based movie rental store. It was.
Yasujiro Ozu is one of my favorite all-time directors, but I confess that I haven't watched many of his classic films in recent years. The only film I of his.
I've never really gotten the appeal of Jean Harlow. Every movie she was in centered around her beauty, but I don't get it. I also don't think she was a very good actor. So I'm not much of a man. That said, this William Beaudine...
This wild 2021 film from the Romanian director Radu Jude is a glorious mess. The story is this--an award-winning teacher at an elite Bucharest private school films herself and her.
Some of you might not be watching football, so here's a different topic that I know moves the LGM commentariat--contemporary Chinese film. And nope. you ain't getting an open thread..
Margareth Olin is a well-known director in Norway but her films have gotten almost no play in the United States. But her new one has. Songs of Earth is a lovely tribute to the relationship between Olin's parents and the beautiful but unforgiving nature of...
Oregon plays Penn State for the Big 10 Championship tomorrow, which is a good time to use the Film Club to show the footage from 2011 when Penn State students.
The Fall Guy did not do so well at the box office and that's too bad, because it is really is pretty damn entertaining. It's amazing what happens when Hollywood.