Hawks’ His Girl Friday (1940) is such a delightful film. I watched it for the third time last night and was completely blown away all over again. Hildy running down the sidewalk in her high heels afte...

I don’t want to pretend that I know much about some of the issues Alice Mackay’s T-Blockers (2023) deals with or about the cultural world its characters inhabit. In fact, I know next to nothing about ...

Finally re-watched Godard's Week-End (1967). Brillant throughout. A film that is many different films at once without being any one of them. A film so inventive, bold, and relentless that entire films...

I’ve seen Godard’s Le Mépris (1963) three times now, and I have to say that, among many other things, it makes me think about how interesting and important good film criticism can be for those of us w...

Testing my pseudo-theory. And comments on Argento’s nice Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971)

I find it difficult to write about Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1978). I often have the feeling that when we write or talk about very good films, it usually ends up trivializing whatever it was ...

Ser humano ainda em situação de São Paulo, mais ou menos. Interesses: filme, plantas e bichos, livro (de vez em quando)

Why I find Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller (1974) a masterpiece

Gertrud (1964) feels like a redundancy machine

The plot is all over the place, the black magic cult is camp and kitsch as fuck, and the acting is mostly of dubious quality, but somehow it works as a whole. I guess this is partly because it succeed...

A few comments on Martino's Torso (1973)

Rewatching Orson Welles’ masterpiece

Tedious soul-searching and life lessons amidst moments of joy

Licorice Pizza is an interesting film

Sam Peckinpah’s brilliant Ride The High Country (1962)

Fregonese’s Apache Drums (1951) is a stunning film.