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Posted by: ckckred | April 15, 2018

Cannes 2018 Alert

Some very exciting news: this year, I’m happy to announce that I will be attending the 71st Cannes Film Festival this May. As a film buff growing up, I’ve always wanted the opportunity to attend Cannes, and going to the festivities this year is a dream for myself. Earlier this week, Cannes announced their lineup for their 2018 Festival this May, and there are some pretty big heavy hitters, featuring new films by Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee, and Lee-Chang Dong competing for the Palme d’Or. Cate Blanchett will be the Jury President for the Main Competition, while Benicio del Toro, Ursula Meier, and Bertrand Bonello will preside over the Un Certain Regard, Camera d’Or, and Cinéfoundation and Short Film contests respectively.

The 10 Best Films of 2017

The late, great Harry Dean Stanton in Lucky, one of 2017’s best films

A few weeks ago, I admitted to a couple of my friends that I thought 2017 was a lackluster year for movies, missing a film as grabbing as Son of Saul or Green Room. Yet after compiling this list, I’ve come to the realization that 2017 was actually a very solid year for cinema, providing us a number of pictures that provided intelligent looks at contemporary racism, class conflict, and social dysfunction. So, without further ado, here are my 10 favorite movies from the past year:

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Posted in Analysis, Movies | Tags: 2017, A Ghost Story, Agnès Varda, Aki Kaurismäki, Ben and Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie, Blade Runner 2049, David Lowery, Denis Villeneuve, Faces Places, Good Time, John Carroll Lynch, Josh Safdie, JR, Lucky, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Ruben Östlund, Safdie Brothers, Sean Baker, The Florida Project, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Other Side of Hope, The Square, Top 10 Lists, Yorgos Lanthimos

Posted by: ckckred | December 31, 2017

What Was The Best Non-2017 Movie You Saw This Past Year?

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Today is the last day of 2017, and while we’re all making resolutions for the next twelve months, I thought I’d look back at some of the favorite movies I saw this past year. Though I’m still compiling my best of list for 2017, I did see a plentitude of great pictures from other years, whether it be films from classic Hollywood era or the Japanese New Wave.

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Posted in Movies, Questions | Tags: 2017, A Man Escaped, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Coen brothers, Daisies, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Paris Texas, R.W. Fassbinder, Raúl Ruiz, Red, Robert Bresson, Shirley Clarke, The Connection, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Three Colors Trilogy, Three Crowns of the Sailor, Věra Chytilová, Wim Wenders

Posted by: ckckred | December 23, 2017

The 10 Best Albums of 2017

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Like the past several years, 2017 has been particularly grueling, for reasons I don’t think I have to explain. Yet bad times can bring out the best in music, and 2017 had no shortage of good albums. So lo and behold, here are my 10 favorite albums of the past 12 months.

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Posted in Analysis, Music | Tags: At the Drive-In, Bell Witch, Clairvoyant, Converge, Crossover Ministry, Curse of Conception, Darkest Hour, Dead Cross, Eroded Corridors of Unbeing, Full of Hell, Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora, Heartless, in•ter a•li•a, Iron Reagan, Lifeless God, Lunar, Medusa, Mirror Reaper, Mutoid Man, Ne Oblivisciris, Nightbringers, Nightmare Logic, Oxbow, Pallbearer, Paradise Lost, Phobia, Power Trip, Royal Thunder, Spectral Voice, Spirit Adrift, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Contortionist, The Dusk In Us, Thin Black Duke, Trumpeting Ecstasy, Urn, War Moans, Wick, Without Waves

Posted by: ckckred | November 2, 2017

October 2017 Round-Up

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Another month over, another round-up written. This past October I managed to catch up on several new releases (most notably the Palm d’Or winner The Square), multiple documentaries, and a few classics I shamefully haven’t seen before.

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Posted in Movies, Review | Tags: Blade of the Immortal, Farrebique, Gimme Shelter, Gods of the Plague, Happy Death Day, Memories of the Eichmann Trial, Night and Fog, Pan's Labyrinth, Phantom of the Opera, Portrait of Jason, The Square, Tokyo Vampire Hotel

Posted by: ckckred | October 2, 2017

August and September 2017 Round-Up

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Since I didn’t post my round-up for last month, I thought it would be best to incorporate the films I viewed in both August and September in a single list. These past two months I caught several new features, some classic pictures, and some other movies I’ve been meaning to see for a while.

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Posted in Movies, Review | Tags: A. I.: Artificial Intelligence, After Hours, An Inconvenient Sequel, Baby Driver, Batman Begins, Blind Chance, Detroit, It, Lucky Logan, Mother!, Paris Texas, Red, Some Like It Hot, The Dark Tower, The Three Colors Trilogy, Weirdos

Posted by: ckckred | September 16, 2017

R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton

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There are few actors who brought more electricity or magnetism to their roles than Harry Dean Stanton. In the over sixty years he had been working as an actor, Stanton has had one of the most solid resumes in Hollywood, having starred in such work as Paris, Texas, Repo Man, and Escape from New York. Though in many of his films he played supporting or side characters, Stanton’s charisma made him often outshine his fellow costars, prompting the late Roger Ebert to declare, “No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton… in a supporting role can be altogether bad.”

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Posted in Movies, News, TV | Tags: David Lynch, Escape from New York, Harry Dean Stanton, Paris Texas, R. I. P., Repo Man, Roger Ebert, Twin Peaks

Posted by: ckckred | August 2, 2017

July 2017 Round-Up

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Another month, another round-up. This July, I managed to catch some more new releases as well and a few classic features.

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Posted in Analysis, Movies | Tags: A Ghost Story, Buster Keaton, Catherine Deneuve, Coen brothers, College, Dunkirk, Ethan Coen, Film, Joel Coen, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Midwife, The Wrong Light, What We Do in the Shadows

Posted by: ckckred | July 2, 2017

June 2017 Round-Up

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Another month, another round-up. This June I had seen more contemporary films than I had done so in the last several months (though “contemporary” really accounts for movies that have debuted within the last several decades), as well as some more revival screenings (for Love Jones, Rashomon, and Paint It Black).

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Posted in Analysis, Movies | Tags: Baby Driver, Children of the Corn, eXistenZ, Fist Fight, I Daniel Blake, Love Jones, Paint It Black, Rashomon, The 400 Blows, The Usual Suspects, Wonder Woman

Posted by: ckckred | June 30, 2017

The Best of 2017 (Thus Far)

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2017 thus far has proven to be a climatic year (though I said the same exact thing last year), yet we’ve received a good share of great media within the past six months. Admittedly I haven’t seen as many films from this year as I have wanted, which is why I didn’t compose a list for movies (though if I were to pick what had been my favorite picture of 2017 so far, it would be Terrence Malick’s Song to Song). To make up for that, I’ve doubled the number of TV programs and albums and surprisingly had a difficult time narrowing down the finalists. So here is some of my favorite entertainment of 2017; hopefully the next six months will be just as good.

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Posted in Analysis, List, Music, TV | Tags: Aimee Mann, Archer, Archer: Dreamland, At the Drive-In, Baskets, Comedy Central, Crossover Ministry, Darkest Hour, Fargo, Full of Hell, FX, FXX, Goatwhore, Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora, HBO, Heartless, in•ter a•li•a, Iron Reagan, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Legion, Lifeless God, Midnight, Municipal Waste, Mutoid Man, Nightmare Logic, Pallbearer, Phobia, Power Trip, Review, Showtime, Shox of Violence, Silicon Valley, Slime and Punishment, Song to Song, Terrence Malick, The Americans, Trumpeting Ecstasy, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: The Return, Veep, War Moans

Cinematic

Cannes 2018 Alert

The 10 Best Films of 2017

What Was The Best Non-2017 Movie You Saw This Past Year?

The 10 Best Albums of 2017

October 2017 Round-Up

August and September 2017 Round-Up

R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton

July 2017 Round-Up

June 2017 Round-Up

The Best of 2017 (Thus Far)

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