A review of Věra Chytilová’s film Daisies, presented as part of the ongoing column SOUND and VISION...
Oliver Shaw
September 16, 2024
Lynne Ramsay’s work is not for the faint of heart. She’s only made four films in almost twenty five years, but I’ve yet to encounter a filmmaker who demonstrates the notion “quality, not quantity” more awesomely than Lynne Ramsay. I love all her films, and all for different reasons. But none of them (few films at all, really) come close to Morvern Callar...
Oliver Shaw
May 20, 2024
When David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows premiered in 2014, I was in awe of how simultaneously timeless and timely the film was. There was a marked jump in collective screen time after 2013, the start of many more people having access to everything (the internet, each other) all the time (smartphones) — the start of time collapsing in on itself just as it does in the film...
Lisa John Rogers
March 11, 2024
When Ashley and I decided to put together this column, films started flooding my thoughts. I have hundreds of favorite films. Seriously. Tangerine is just one. But, Tangerine embodies the spirit of this series better than most. This is Sound and Vision, so I had to pick something with the most explosive of aesthetics...
Oliver Shaw
December 25, 2023
As I sit down to make sense of True Romance and how it works its way through how I understand myself in relation to the city I’m transported in time to my uncle’s white van on I-94 in the pitch blackness of the early evening, working our way back to “Midtown”/”Cass Corridor” from an off the books scrap job in the suburbs...
Walter Lucken IV
December 22, 2023
Scrolling Time Magazine’s list of “The 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades,” one would not think to find auteur Jim Jarmusch’s night-dwelling vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) amongst the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Greta Gerwig, set to represent the 2010s...
Darian Hillaker
December 11, 2023
Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street is the ultimate example of a hidden gem. After a long overdue national tour last year (including a screening and Q&A with writer/director/star Wendell B. Harris at the city’s own Cinema Detroit), the film is finally reaching an audience Hollywood hoped it would never find...
Oliver Shaw
March 27, 2023