Infinity Pool 2023

Cornbread, Earl and Me 1975
Weird tensions present here, where the police are candidly presented as engaging in blackmail, framing, and a broader cover-up in order to protect their own, BUT ALSO the cops learn a lesson in the end.
There’s also an emphasis on Cornbread being “one of the good ones” in a way that I ascribe, perhaps naively, to the time. Would Cornbread’s life have been worth less if he was in fact “unemployed”, as the coroner insists on calling him, despite being a student? Though perhaps it’s a demonstration that even the most unimpeachable are still as likely to be smeared by those in power.

The Killing Floor 1984

살인의 추억 Memories of Murder (2003)

タンポポ Tampopo (1985)

Possessor Uncut 2020

Skinamarink 2023
As a sequence of (largely) still images, this is quite lovely. There’s an hourglass-like composition that the film returns to often that I thought powerful, and the legos photograph well. This captures the shifting, uncertain form that items take late at night in the dark.
As an object of thematic or narrative meaning, it didn’t work for me. The ideas never cohere into much. They’re also too few in number and depth to carry 100 minutes.
Even so, I would have respected this as a piece of visual art if not for the jump scares. They cheapen the quiet tension, and reveal how bereft of real horror the film is.

Cooley High 1975

Low Tide: DLC 2022
Pusong Bato Stone Heart (2014)
Spencer Bell, Nobody Knows My Name 2021
Thomasine & Bushrod 1974

Intermittent Delight 2007
Tea 4 Two 2006
離騷幻覺-序 Dragon's Delusion : Preface (2020)