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October 5, 2017

Faces Places: New Adventures, by Scott Nye

On Monday, grieving from the news in Las Vegas and the sheer hopelessness of genuinely trying to prevent another such tragedy from happening here, I went to see Agnès Varda’s new film, Faces Places. And for just under 90 minutes...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

September 18, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Movie Challenge #27: Breathless, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. I studied the French New...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

May 17, 2017

Criterion Prediction #89: La Chinoise, by Alexander Miller

Title: La Chinoise Year: 1967 Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako, Lex De Bruijn, Omar Diop Synopsis: A group of leftist students gathers and discusses their Marxist/Socialist ideals, applying them to the recently established...

movies / Rep-port / scott nye

April 27, 2017

The L.A. Rep-port: 4/28 to 5/5, by Scott Nye

UCLA concludes their spectacular series pairing silent and early sound Japanese and American films. On Friday they have Yasujiro Shimazu’s First Steps Ashore (1932, 35mm) alongside Josef von Sternberg’s life-changing The Docks of New York (1928, 35mm). Then on Sunday,...

Tagged: Jean-Luc Godard

Faces Places: New Adventures, by Scott Nye

BP’s Top 100 Movie Challenge #27: Breathless, by Sarah Brinks

Criterion Prediction #89: La Chinoise, by Alexander Miller

The L.A. Rep-port: 4/28 to 5/5, by Scott Nye

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