to the Moon, Alice? nope: to Mars, Eva
Everything that happened at Flick Filosopher between Monday, November 16th, and Sunday, November 22nd, in the plague year 2020.
so thankful for you, my readers...
It’s not Thanksgiving this week everywhere I have readers. It’s not even Thanksgiving in most places where I have readers. But I’m still gonna give thanks for you, and you, and you, and you over there, and all of you everywhere. It’s been a tough year — for all of us, of course — and I am so very grateful for all of you who have stuck with me through my very low, very unproductive times this year. I think — I know — that better times are coming for all of us, and more creatively fruitful times are coming for me.
So: thank you. Your readership is always appreciated, and never more so than this year.
—MaryAnn
(Note: I posted nothing at FlickFilosopher.com from Nov 9–15, so there was no weekly-digest email last week. You didn’t miss anything)
new at flick filosopher, Nov 16–22
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, US/Can, Nov 10–20
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Proxima movie review: the work of the world [pictured]
Brings a fundamental new humanity to the story of those who court great danger in order to advance human knowledge. Eva Green is immense. Writer-director Alice Winocour’s compassion is achingly acute.
read the review...
new and ongoing dvd/blu/vod releases, UK/Ire, Nov 09–20
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Mogul Mowgli movie review: Riz Ahmed goes home and goes big (#LFF2020)
An uneasy jolt of (pop) culture clash and assimilation angst. Unsettling and electrifying; near-nightmarish and absolutely mesmerizing. Riz Ahmed oozes sweat and rage, pride and power.
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We’ve got another holiday to worry about. It seems Thanksgiving Day is upon us...
—A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
coming up this week...
really hoping to get to reviews of:
Mangrove, from director Steve McQueen, the first film in his Small Axe series
The Christmas Chronicles 2, on Netflix, sequel to the cheeky 2018 Kurt Russell–as–Santa Claus flick
the Kristen Stewart–Mackenzie Davis holiday rom-com Happiest Season
the Melissa McCarthy comedy Superintelligence
more London Film Festival flicks
and still on the drawing board, if perhaps slightly backburnered:
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