I got some links for ye
I’m sorry for my silence; the last several weeks have been a little too much, and when I sit down to write anything outside of work/school/book, my mind goes utterly blank.
But I got some links for you.
Last week I got to attend Babette’s feast — like, a feast modeled on the one from the movie (in turn based on an Isak Dinesen story), which I wrote about in Salty — and I was deeply lucky to get to write about it for Eater.
I also wrote for the Film Comment Letter (which comes from Film at Lincoln Center) about In Viaggio, the new doc about Pope Francis, and the pope on screen.
Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up was one of my favorite movies that I saw last year (at Cannes), but it’s only just now coming out, which means it’s automatically one of my favorites of 2023. So I wrote about it — a comedy about trying to get stuff done while fielding distractions and curveballs thrown by the universe. I’m sure you can’t relate.
Have you notice a lot of movies about risk-taking business dudes coming out? Air (out this week, extremely fun), and Tetris (bleh), and BlackBerry (coming in May, quite good), and there are more? Wrote about how Hollywood is in its business era.
I rounded up ten nonfiction movies I saw on the festival circuit in March, all stuff you’ll want to watch for — a doc about Thomas Kinkade, another about Y2K, another about altruistic kidney donation and the Good Samaritan parable … it’s a good time to be seeing movies.
I will return to form as as soon as I’m able, because I have all these wonderful books and plays and musicals and TV shows to tell you about!
Wishing you the best!