Steven Soderbergh screwball spy thriller Black Bag - Prime (Dan Williams)
The Eternal Zero
Gun Crazy
Network
The Irishman has dates in it: freeze frame, death dates of characters
NETFLIX: John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Karaoke (Moshe Rosenthal, Rudi rec)
I'm Still Here (Brazil military dictatorship 1964 /1971 / 1996 / 2014)
Mermaids (has many dates in 1963)
SERIES : ADOLESCENCE
FILM COMMENT Apr 2025: "Not one but two films directed by the ever-prolific Steven Soderbergh have hit theater screens across the country this year (and it’s only April!): the formally audacious horror movie Presence and the screwball spy thriller Black Bag. Listen to our illuminating 2022 Podcast interview with the restless auteur, pegged to the release of his Hitchcockian corporate-conspiracy film KIMI."
COMING
Wes Anderson, The Phoenician Scheme (Jun 6)
March | Eephus (Sunday league ballpark to be demolished. Cannes contender. DM1016)
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Steven Soderbergh’s stylish spy thriller Black Bag
Richard Linklater "Blue Moon" October
NOW PLAYING
Doubters To Believers (Klopp) Netflix
HAVE
The 4:30 Movie [Hoopla, Apple]
The Naked City
What Time Is It There?
Sam Mendes, Empire Awards speech, 2013
I want to thank Stanley Kubrick for the war room in “Dr. Strangelove,” Billy Wilder for C. C. Baxter in “The Apartment,” Kurosawa for the death of the king at the end of “Throne of Blood,” Martin Scorsese for panning a camera down an empty corridor in “Taxi Driver,” Joel and Ethan Coen for the last scene between Marge and Norm in bed at the end of “Fargo,” Paul Thomas Anderson for the deafening of H. W. Plainview in “There Will Be Blood,” Bergman for the visit of Bibi Andersson to Liv Ullmann in the dead of night in “Persona,” Francis Coppola for the killing of Fredo Corleone in “The Godfather II,” David Fincher for the first scene in “The Social Network,” Bob Fosse for the audition sequence at the beginning of “All That Jazz,” Quentin Tarantino for Christopher Walken’s speech about the watch in “Pulp Fiction,” Woody Allen for the fireworks over “Manhattan,” Clint Eastwood for making it rain at the end of “Unforgiven,” Michael Powell for the moment Moira Shearer steps into the ballet of “The Red Shoes,” David Lynch for the car journey with Frank Booth in “Blue Velvet,” Mike Nichols for Benjamin in the swimming pool in “The Graduate,” François Truffaut for the moment the boy looks into the lens at the end of “400 Blows,” and Wim Wenders for the moment Harry Dean Stanton sees Nastassja Kinski after all those years at the end of “Paris, Texas.”
NOW STREAMING
ADOLESCENCE [Liverpool-set series rec Katie & Carole]
American Fiction [Prime Apple Amazon]
Barbie [PN liked it]
Blitz (Steve McQueen, Saoirse Ronan) [Apple] DW didn't like it
Grand Theft Hamlet [MUBI]
HARD TRUTHS (Mike Leigh) | PN
My Old Ass (PRIME)
Daniel Reville: Really good film about learning to live in the moment, even when staring down an unknown future that’s already in motion, in spite of all of your best intensions.
It really packs a punch at the end, and it earns every right to do so. Just a really great film all around.
The Old Oak (2023, Hoopla)
Promised Land (Amazon Apple Hoopla)
Oh, Canada [Schrader. Draft dodger?]
The Shadowless Tower [Apple $6.99]
NOT STREAMING
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
MUBI [7 days free via Apple TV+]
Kim's Video (NYC video store sold to foreign country, now returned to NYC)
Pacifiction (diplomat, French Polynesia
The Settlers (Chile)
SEE WITH CAROLE
Game Night (comedic take on The Game)
Flora and Son (writer/director of Once and Sing Street)
Liberty Heights (Barry Levinson, Baltimore, great early-Fifties pop soundtrack)
Vengeance Most Fowl [streaming]
FIND
The Last Film Show (India, Julie Sutherland rec)
Looking for Eric (Ken Loach) depressed postman's conversations with Eric Cantona
Porcelain War (Rosie rec, Ukrainian pottery)
A Midnight Clear (Ethan Hawke)
REC MATT PAGE
LA CHIMERA or CORPO CELESTE: Soul Food films
REVILL
Thin Red Line
In The Loop (Brit poli satire, Gulf War)
Leviathan (also PN)
American Honey
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Fountain
GONE
Barbie
Blinded By The Light (2019) (Apple TV+ buy $12.99) *
Broken Circle Breakdown (DW: "mega sad". Belgian, bluegrass music)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (rec Anthony Forkush)
Cold Case Hammarskjold HOOPLA MUBI
The Gods of Times Square
Living
Maestro (Daniel Revill #8, 2023)
Marlowe
The Mass Is Ended *
Memory
Norah's Will (Mexico, rec Geoff Cowper)
One Life
Past Lives (Daniel Revill #1, 2023)
The Road Dance (rec Michael Hart, Scottish small town w/ music)
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
NETFLIX
Bank of Dave (Carole rec. Set in Burnley)
Poison
The Rat Catcher
The Swan
The Wonder
Series
Chernobyl
True Detective Season One, as well as Season Four w/ Jodie Foster (Katie rec)
Adolescence
*
INFO
The 4:30 Movie (Kevin Smith, 2024)
A group of teens in the 1980s spend the day theatre-hopping.
The Mass Is Ended (1985, Italy, Nanni Maretti)
"A young priest, Don Giulio, struggles to maintain his faith. Having been a radical college student in the 1960s, Don Giulio has now rejected his long hair and liberal ideals in favor of the church. He has himself transferred to his home parish, only to discover the church empty and the town indifferent. Meanwhile, Don Giulio’s friends from his radical days begin popping up with their lives in serious disarray. Don Giulio seeks solace with his beloved family, but his family too is in chaos. The director's follow-up, The Son's Room, was a stunner." VIFF
The Promised Land
an old-fashioned epic, a settler Western unfolding on the barren heaths of Denmark rather than the American frontier. Mads Mikkelsen is a longtime soldier seeking the favor of the Danish crown by cultivating a harsh landscape. Kahlen cobbles together a ragtag crew of waifs and cast-offs, and goes to bitter battle with a preening local lord.
The Settlers
In 1893, Segundo, a Chilean mestizo, an English army captain, and an American mercenary embark on an expedition on horseback to reclaim the lands that the State has granted to José Menéndez. What appears to be an administrative expedition turns into a violent hunt for Onas, the natives of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.
The Shadowless Tower
This quiet but sweeping drama, a winsome tribute to the old quarters of Beijing, their narrow streets and hole-in-the-wall eateries. a rumpled, middle-aged food critic, is the soulful center of the film, while Huang Yao gamely plays the young photographer who coaxes him out of his stasis.
