Flick Filosopher weekly digest Oct 26–Nov 01
Links to everything I posted at Flick Filosopher between Monday, October 26th, and Sunday, November 1st, in the plague year 2020.
London lockdown looms again...
We’re going into a pretty strict lockdown again in England — including in London, where I live — for at least a month, starting on Thursday. I’ve basically been in fairly strict lockdown myself since spring anyway: I haven’t been to a cinema or a press screening since March, or to a museum, or to the homes of any of my friends or family, or for a random wander around this amazing city. Apart from essential shopping that couldn’t be done online (and I’ve done plenty of that), I haven’t left my home for many reasons that aren’t about getting some exercise outdoors, and a very few meals in COVID-safe pubs and restaurants with a friend or two, often sitting outdoors, which feels very safe to me.
But I have risked sitting indoors in a pub — I’m doing that right now, because I’m going absolutely bonkers working from home. (Which basically means sitting in my bedroom, cuz I’m a lodger in someone else’s house, and while I do have the run of the house, while my landlady is also working from home, that doesn’t leave me too many other places to be. No, this is not the life I imagined for myself at 50something.) It’s a tricky decision, weighing the risk of catching this bastard virus while it’s on the rise in this major world city versus an attempt to save my sanity by looking at some different walls and talking to a few people — however passingly and transactionally — who don’t normally see me in my pajamas.
Because I’ve been isolating myself anyway since March, this new lockdown won’t be too different from what I’ve been experiencing. But I’m still dreading it. At least I have many movies to watch, and ponder, and write about, and share with you. Stay tuned...
—MaryAnn
new at flick filosopher, Oct 26–Nov 01
African Apocalypse documentary review: Black perspectives matter (#LFF2020)
In an intimate yet shattering documentary, Black British activist Femi Nylander searches for “the imperial history they didn’t teach at school,” and finds it. Heartbreaking, provocative, illuminating.
read the review...
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Oct 28–30
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new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Oct 26–30
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The Binge: Mrs America (#FXonHulu/#BBC) [pictured]
Apart from the value of its explicatory gloss on anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, there is entertaining, gratifying drama in the clash of so many complex feminist women working against her.
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People vote not out of love but fear.
—Nixon
coming up this week...
might be gonna get to these reviews in the coming this week maybe:
astronaut drama Proxima, starring Eva Green
Sophia Coppola’s On the Rocks
Robert Zemeckis’s The Witches
historical drama Radium Girls
documentary Naughty Books
Netflix’s Enola Holmes
the Charlie Kaufman mindbender I’m Thinking of Ending Things
writer-director Jon Stewart’s political dramedy Irresistible
more London Film Festival flicks