Choices

Cycling the Frame, A Brief Review

Cycling the Frame, Cynthia Beatt, 1988. Following Tilda Swinton as she bikes throughout bifurcated, walled Berlin in the late 80s, this documentary offers a window into the everydayness of the city on the verge of great change, as Swinton reflects on its past, present and future.

Anticipating the Future

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (book by M Kundera)

Always happy to find free feature-length, studio films on YouTube inspired by books I’ve read.

Unbearable lightness is a great book about love, being, late-communist Eastern Europe and the melancholy (and lightness) of life.

Here’s the trailer, and I’ll write a review later.

The Truest Thing

Entertainment, A Brief Review

“Entertainment,” 2015, Rick Alverson. Starring Gregg Turkington, and co-written by none other than Tim Heidecker, this film follows a mostly-unsuccessful and very lonely standup comedian in his abortive cross-California tour, visiting ghost towns and arguing with hecklers, the comedian often dreams about becoming a star…

On Grimm’s

Grimm’s fairytales are so gloriously well grim, but also, they’re about consequences, learning lessons and anticipating and preparing oneself to deal with the dangers of the world

The Wire on Loneliness

Quotes: Updated

“It’s Baltimore, gentlemen, the gods will not save you” – Commissioner Burrell, The Wire

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, A Brief Review

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once; 2022; “The Daniels.” Another great Michelle Yeoh performance, joined by Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan. Daily, we face the question: what lies between us and nothingness? In all universes, the answer is the same: the love we give and receive.