We Live in Time: A Kaleidoscopic, Intimate Tearjerker

We Live in Time’s strength lies in the acting. Garfield and Pugh elevate the film from a standard tearjerker to a cathartic exploration of the way that love, grief, and memory intersect.

ReviewsKathryn BaileyOctober 21, 2024We Live in Time, John Crowley, Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield, A24Comment

Film Notes: Streets of Fire

Streets of Fire is an anthem for those who live for love, or trouble, or both.

Film Notes: Josie and the Pussycats

One of the most accurate portrayals of late stage capitalism before it was even fully realized. A prophesy of the eventual TikTokification of the music industry. A satire of the American government’s corruption as bolstered by a Machiavellian antagonist. Josie and the Pussycats is all this and so much more.

Film Notes: Eve's Bayou

As far as directorial debuts go, Eve’s Bayou is in a league of its own.

Janet Planet: Reconciling Motherhood, Childhood, and Personhood

The circumstances of Annie Baker’s debut film, Janet Planet, are specific: the film centers on Lacy, an 11 year old girl, and her mother Janet, as they while away the summer of 1991 in the woods of Massachusetts.

ReviewsKathryn BaileyJuly 11, 2024janet planet, review, annie baker Comments

The Objective Compassion of Look Into My Eyes

Lana Wilson’s new documentary, Look Into My Eyes, presents through juxtaposition of hurt and healing the film’s ethos: human is to be messy.

Doc Days, ReviewsKathryn BaileyJune 3, 2024Look Into My Eyes, Lana Wilson, psychics, New York City, clairvoyant, Hannah BuckComment

Perspire & Desire: The Sexy, Sweaty Appeal of Body Heat

Like any good, conniving femme fatale, Matty leverages that lust, putting the erotic in erotic neo-noir. “You aren’t too smart, are you? I like that in a man.”

Kathryn BaileyAugust 7, 2023Comment

Film Notes: Orlando

With the current politicization of gender identity, ORLANDO is an essential text of queer theory and an example of how each element of our selfhood is changeable, a demonstration of how a freedom of spirit allows for the indulgence of endless earthly delights.

Film NotesKathryn BaileyJuly 25, 2023Comment

Film Notes: Bound

At once a a genre exercise featuring familiar archetypes and a dazzlingly subversive debut feature, Bound heralded the arrival of two legendary and generation-defining filmmakers.

Film NotesKathryn BaileyJune 20, 2023Comment

Camp Becomes Her

You have to know the rules to break the rules. Camp is the glowing pink tonic that keeps Death Becomes Her forever fresh all these years later.

AnalysisKathryn BaileyMay 8, 2023Death Becomes Her, Bruce WillisComment

Weird Wednesdays: Freeway

Freeway is an endlessly surprising twist on a familiar story featuring an against-type Reese Witherspoon and a litany of absolutely bonkers choices.

Alamo Weird WednesdayKathryn BaileyApril 19, 2023FreewayComment