I have installed a new application to send my posts hither and yon. This post if an experiment to see if it works. As a bonus, here are my recommended films of 2024. I decided not to try to do much critiquing.
Nickel Boys RaMell Ross *. This film tells a story in a multiple of ways to tell a story: point of view, flashback, flash-forward, news real, and probably more. Most people will probably bail.
Oh, Canada – Paul Schrader
Vermiglio – Maura Delpero An interesting love story combined with an anthropological study of a remote Italian village in World War II.
Blitz – Steve McQueen. Scenes that reminded me of the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind.
Emila Perz – Jacques Audiard. About what may or may not remain in a person’s character after sex change.
Conclave – Edward Berger There’s a interesting twist ending, also what Hollywood would call an “All Star Cast.”
The Room Next Door – Pedro Almadovar. Not a lot of laughs, it’s very moving.
A Complete Unknown James Mangold Brought back memory of the early sixties folk and my first trip to NYC in 1966. Hey University of Minnesota, you remember that kid, Robert Zimmerman?