A Blog
Here’s some background: Sicily, once upon a time, was the posh region of Italy. An epicenter of fertility thanks to volcanoes, and another of trade thanks to its centralized location. Italian, Africa, Byzantine and Greek influence took root. Time turned the magnetic region on its head, joining fellow Italian southerners from Rome down as being […]
Martin Eden is a heavy handed film. I’ve been exhausted with the vagueness of modern Independent Realism, and sometimes I just want to be told what to feel, you know? Sitting down and being yelled at by a filmmaker over philosophy w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶p̶u̶t̶ ̶c̶i̶g̶a̶r̶e̶t̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶n̶ sounds like my version of a […]
A group of friends and I were having a Zoom. Bicycle Thieves came up, in the way it does. One friend mentioned that he strongly, strongly, strongly seemed to dislike the movie and its overindulgence in freshman film studies courses. And whoa, I agreed. It’s a valid critique of conservative film theorists. I can’t think […]
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about The Last Emperor for about a week. I’ve seen many other films since and this is the one sticking in my mind. I even had trouble sleeping the other night because I couldn’t get the score out of my head. “Shut up, Emperor movie. My God, just […]
Il Posto makes me think of my own life. Growing up, I never had much of an inclination to have a job. My first job as an assistant to a film studio, a part of my university. This didn’t come out of a burning desire to have a job. I wanted to feel special, seen, […]
