your name. (2016) written and directed by Makoto Shinkai your name. begins in media res, meaning when Mitsuha attends school one day, we experience her confusion alongside her: her friends and family report that she acted strange the day before, though she has no memory why. It’s only when she fully body swaps with Taki, […]
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Anatomy of a Fall dir. Justine Triet The first half of Anatomy of a Fall, the recent film from French writer and director Justine Triet, tells you many times over what it will not do. When the central character (and suspect) Sandra tells her lawyer Vincent that she is innocent, he says (if a little […]
Speed (1994) dir. Jan de Bont I cannot talk about Speed without talking about Los Angeles. On screen LA is represented frequently but not accurately—it is often the site of the apocalyptic, the superficial and fake, or it acts as a synecdoche for the Hollywood industry. I am not a stickler for realism in my […]
Close Read has been writing and recommending for a year now, and what is the one month we skipped? The one month that represents two of our writers (not a small number–that’s 66.66666etc of staff)? We were so focused on finding something different to write about for Pride that we never wrote, well, anything. (What […]
Without consulting each other, our authors watched a different Wong Kar-wai film and then chose it as their recommendations. What can we say? We were in that romantic August mood. In the Mood for Love (2000) written & directed by Wong Kar-wai This movie has been on a to-watch list for a while, and it […]
EVERGREEN by PVRIS It’s hard to determine which PVRIS single is the best forerunner to their new album EVERGREEN. Was it “Monster,” which uses similar distorted guitars and vocals? Was it “My Way,” the lyrics and title of which make clear the manner frontwoman Lynn Gunn has chosen for her sound: “My my my way […]
Did we watch the 2018 South Korean film Little Forest because it’s Taurus season, which includes two of our writers and legend Kim Tae-ri? Possibly! The following is a transcript of our post-watch discussion, and it has been edited for length and clarity. EU: Eugene EL: Elise P: Peyton P: This is a Eugene movie […]
For our monthly recommendation for February, we decided to do a holiday special: we present you some of our favorite rom-coms in the spirit of Valentine’s Day. Let’s feel the love! While You Were Sleeping (1995) directed by Jon Turteltaub As a self-proclaimed rom-com connoisseur, for February I decided to highlight one of my favorites. […]
The Banshees of Inisherin, written and directed by Martin McDonagh Movies are created about the everyday and the universal but rarely the banal, simply because movies need to be entertaining. The Banshees of Inisherin accomplishes both: it manages to be entertaining by way of tackling the banality of our lives and showing us the heartbreak […]
Movie I’ve already talked this year about how much I love Nope, so I want to highlight a favorite from before the blog started: Everything Everywhere All At Once, written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. This movie rightly took spring of 2022 by storm: it is an explosion of talent and creativity, […]
