Posts Tagged ‘The Duke of Burgundy’
Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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The MacGuffin’s Top 10 Films of 2015
The writers at The MacGuffin all had a favorite film of 2015. The neat thing about writing for a site like this one is that there are many voices and opinions on all different types of films. We don’t all agree on how much we…
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Film Review – The Tribe
Pimpin’ ain’t easy at a Ukrainian school for the deaf, for the students or the audience. The Tribe, from director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, plays as an effective experiment in how cinema communicates, with all dialogue in Ukrainian sign language, an expressive cast, and no onscreen subtitles.…
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Film Review – The Falling
Illness is other people. Or rather, sickness is a social contagion as well as a physiological one. Today, fainting at a dramatically opportune time is the stuff of hacky sitcom humor. In Victorian England, it was gendered hysterical through the trope of the elegant socialite…
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