frank falisi

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“Everything’s Gone Jackanory”: After 28 Days Later Trying to write about the 28 movies—that most blitzed-out and body-baggy horror franchise measured in days, weeks, years—I turned, like a good hauntologist, to half-remembered popular music.

very happy to think long on these films, very grateful to Bloodvine for the space to go languid about Spice Girls and Turner in equal measure

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on the continued pursuit of viewing Cooper generously or: "hey buddy, don't be afraid it won't be perfect—they only thing to be afraid of really is that it won't be"

The Name of the Rose (1986): The Mystery of Faith The Name of the Rose calls itself, in its own opening credits, “a palimpsest of Umberto Eco’s novel”—a provocative, generative, and not altogether unpretentious appellation to lay claim to.

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"In THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986), Connery does not present as capable but instead confident despite his incapabilities, a tendency that here feels like zen touched with zany, more Zardozy than Bonded, arresting in a tonsure."

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there is no definitive year, and so, what a joy to be among such a disparate set of interpretations and inclinations

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thanks to @chadperman.bsky.social for tending a space for this kind of ramble, @eccantwell.bsky.social for copy edits based in care, and Ozzy Osbourne for teaching me how to sing

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Film Show 047: Rashid Masharawi An interview with the Palestinian filmmaker about his new feature-length movie 'Passing Dreams', the Gazan omnibus film 'From Ground Zero', and setting up workshops and screenings in refugee camps

what else is there to say? "We are trying to protect our dreams."

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A Complete Unknown Its willingness to paint sixties establishment folkies as potentially just as extractive as their more legibly villainous record mogul counterparts would have meant something if the film had any inter...

on the treachery of jukebox musicals as art history or: "because something is happening here but you don't know what it is"

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still stuck in the ballroom writing about The Caretaker, but imagine my delight when the film most suited to those crumbled sounds is this haunted goof