Tag: film
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HELP! Who are the Ghibli women filmmakers?
Since I can’t read Japanese, it’s hard for me to identify the women filmmakers at Studio Ghibli throughout the years. Please help me crowdsource the most frequent women contributors behind the scenes. While the studio is known for writing complex women characters, they’ve never had a woman director. Most of the studio’s women have roles…
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Complete Micheaux Blu-ray review
This 2025 Oscar Micheaux Blu-ray release by Kino Lorber is the most groundbreaking collection since Criterion’s Complete Varda set in 2020. Both have made the directors’ works much more accessible to the public. The review below is based on a five-star (*****) system, modeled from my review on Blu-ray.com. Review ***** To give it the…
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Movies watched in 2024
My 22 favorite films of 2024, and a few thoughts on the moving pictures I’ve seen this year. Previous years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020,2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012.
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IMDb Top 30 – 2019 & 2024 Comparison
A quick look at how popular opinion has changed in the past five years. Not a whole lot of change. The Top 5 are still holding steady, and the Top 10 hasn’t changed much, even in the past fifteen years. Via https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/ A few notes: All stats are from December 13th. Wayback Machine Archive.org links:…
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Movies watched in 2023
My 15 favorite films of 2023, and other thoughts on the moving pictures I’ve seen this year. If you’ve read my annual reviews before, you’ll know that I tend to enjoy lesser known gems, like the new Zora Neale Hurston PBS documentary. Previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012.
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All films by Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston, a well-known author, also produced 15 reels (85 minutes, all silent) of probably the earliest autoethnographic documentation, from around 1928 to 1940 in the American South. Currently, it is a challenge to determine the details of each reel, so I’ll piece it together here the best I can. There are no simple IMDb entries…