
curated cinema: a Method to the bloodsucking madness
2000’s Shadow of the Vampire is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.

2000’s Shadow of the Vampire is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.

A mad monstrosity of a movie: absurdist, enigmatic, perverse. Lanthimos’s typical grotesque humor is on full display. Yay for a film that actually attempts to capture how insane the world is today?
And we have winners!
And we have winners!

I correctly guessed 9 out of the 24 categories, which is appalling. I shall be in my corner reprimanding myself.
Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).

I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big…

The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.

Dizzying and dazzling, this is a stirring meditation on the allure, the mystery, and the danger of the world’s highest summits, as places but also as ideas.