Scribbles and Ramblings

As 2024 draws to a close and Best of 2024 Film Lists are published, I am finally ready to publish an updated Best of 2023 list. It has taken...

This is a follow-up to the previous post where I had managed to see 30 / 32 Hong Sang-soo features to date.  Since that post, I have managed...

This list of Best Food Films is long overdue. In the past, I tried to do a proper Food Cinema series for the Cinematheque but the series nev...

Notes on three films directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky: Les Dragueurs / The Chasers (1959) Litan (1982) À mort l'arbitre! / Kill the Referee...

Spotlight on Vittorio De Seta with 10 short films and 1 feature film: Islands of Fire (1955, short film) Easter in Sicily (1955, short film)...

This is a follow-up post to the previous Kinji Fukasaku spotlight which focused on 7 of his Yakuza films. Previously, I associated Kinji Fu...

This is a follow-up to the previous post where I had managed to see 27 / 31 Hong Sang-soo features to date.  Since that post, Hong Sang-soo ...

Notes on a trio of Sean Baker’s films: Take Out (2004, co-directed with Shih-Ching Tsou) Starlet (2012) Red Rocket (2021) As I await Sean Ba...

Notes on the Six Feature Films directed by Joanna Hogg: Unrelated (2007) Archipelago (2010) Exhibition (2013) The Souvenir (2019) The Souven...