Tag: list
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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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Radiohead & side projects, best of
Personal selections from Spotify attempting to highlight all of the projects from Radiohead’s original lineup: Thom Yorke, Colin & Jonny Greenwood, Philip Selway, and Ed O’Brien. I’ve continued to find more contributions as I dig further into their discography, but the 85 tracks (6.5 hours) listed here is a start!
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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…