(tri)weekly digest: a review, some curated cinema picks, and a contest
(tri)weekly digest: a review, some curated cinema picks, and a contest
everything that happened at Flick Filosopher from Monday, May 20, to Sunday, Jun 9
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists — of which I am a member — has just launched its Win With Women Movie Giveaway. Every Friday, the org will give away a one-year subscription to Film Movement Plus, which offers “a curated selection of acclaimed features from around the world, including prize winners from Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, Sundance and SXSW… [and] exclusive independent and world cinema titles, cult and arthouse classics, award-winning documentaries and more.”
The rules are simple:
• follow AWFJ on Instagram or Facebook
• write the name of your favorite female film director in the comments section
(Film Movement Plus is available in the US and Canada, with some titles available only in the US, so the contest is open only to people in the US and Canada.)
There’s a chance to win every week, so get following!
—MaryAnn
PS. I try to send these Weekly Digest (when I can manage them weekly *sigh*) on Mondays. Ideally, I want to get to a point where I’m regularly sending them on Sunday. And here it Tuesday… *bigger sigh*
One of the fun features of the Pit of Despair I’ve been trying to claw myself out of is a near total inability to motivate myself to do anything. I want to do things — so many things! — and yet I find myself paralyzed. But I’m working on that… and maybe I’ll find the mental wherewithal to finally write about that this week, in addition to all the other stuff I’m genuinely desperate to write.
Yeah, but I am thinking about trying to escape! *biggest sigh*
new at flick filosopher, May 20–Jun 09
curated cinema: convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump remains a massive danger to the US and the entire world
2020 documentary #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump is streaming on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic, and also on library-streamer Kanopy in the US. [read more]
Pitch People documentary review: consumerist sideshow
The goofy-90s-cheese factor is high in this look at home-shopping TV hucksters, but any nostalgia is small and cheap. The chipper vibe is distasteful in a way it perhaps wasn’t in the booming 1990s. [read the review | VOD US]
curated cinema: why Scarlett Johansson is considered (by some) an ideal AI voice [pictured]
2013’s Her is on Max in the US, Prime in the UK. [read more]
TFW your site is accidentally valuable, or: why sponsored posts now?
I promise that I will minimize the impact of any sponsored content to you as much as possible. I welcome your feedback on this now or at any point once — if — it takes off. [read more]
what I’m watching and bingeing
The Good Place [Netflix US/UK]: finished my rewatch; did I sob at the end? yes, yes I did
Star Trek: Discovery S5 [Paramount+ globally; via Prime US, Prime UK]: finished! didn’t hate it, not by a long shot, and I adore the characters, but not my favorite Trek series ever, or even current (that’d be Strange New Worlds)
The X-Files [Hulu US/Disney+ UK]: it’s remarkable how well this 30-year-old show has held up; such fun to revisit
Doctor Who [Disney+ US/BBC iPlayer UK]: haven’t seen the most recent ep yet, but I really like “73 Yards,” with its folk-horror vibe and which reminded me (in a good way) of “Turn Left,” and “Dot and Bubble,” with its shocking ending…
Slow Horses S2 [Apple TV+ globally]: still haven’t gotten back to this…
coming up at Flick Filosopher…
romantic crime comedy Hit Man
Bigfoot drama Sasquatch Sunset
pregnancy comedy Babes
tennis triangle Challengers
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
animated retro sci-fi Robot Dreams
road trip drama Bleeding Love, starring father and daughter Ewan and Clara McGregor
queer parody The People’s Joker
Dev Patel’s directorial debut, Monkey Man
lesbian crime romance Love Lies Bleeding
And I have not forgotten about these:
Ava DuVernay’s Origin
Paleolithic thriller Out of Darkness
Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers
the absolutely brutal The Zone of Interest
Paul Giamatti in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers
Wonka, finally
Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction
based-on-fact family wrestling drama The Iron Claw
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon
Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn
Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in May December
Priscilla’s problematic romance with Elvis
teen comedy Bottoms
Barbie, finally, for real, promise
murder mystery Anatomy of a Fall
tween classic onscreen Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
And more!
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