Category: Female Filmmakers
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Things to Come
Imagine your platonic ideal of a bad French independent film. That’s Things to Come. 102 minutes of sad old people talking about philosophy and even then it’s worse than you expect. The film starts three years in the past with an almost wordless flashback, it ends one year in the future. In the interim she…
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Some Cold Takes: Pete’s Dragon; Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates; Swallows and Amazons
Pete’s Dragon You haven’t seen Pete’s Dragon. That’s fine, it’s not a personal failing, nobody has seen it. The film wasn’t released so much as lubed up to slide gracefully from cinema to home video to the annals of time, while registering as little in the public consciousness as possible. Which is a shame, the…
A Grand Quiet 