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So far Guillermo Lopez Meza has created 190 blog entries.

Babylon

It wasn’t what the movie depicted but what it said about class conflicts, racism, and normalized xenophobia in Thatcher’s Britain that caused this film to be sidelined.

By |March 15th, 2019|Film History|0 Comments

Holiday

You may disagree with the filmmaker’s extreme artistic decisions, but they were made to provoke instant revulsion.

By |February 28th, 2019|DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

The Wild Pear Tree

In a new movie full of conversations more than action, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan holds your attention scene by scene.

By |February 7th, 2019|Foreign|0 Comments

Crime+Punishment

A valuable documentary about the illegal practice of arrest quotas by the New York Police Department.

By |December 30th, 2018|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

Burning

A reading of this movie through the lens of The Great Gatsby isn’t so ridiculous, though the film’s trio is much more than a twisted version of Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby.

By |December 11th, 2018|Top Picks|0 Comments

Mirai

Fantasy, reality, and time travel collide in Mirai, a Japanese animated film, where the problem of dealing with a newcomer sibling is blended with strange elements.

By |November 29th, 2018|Animated|0 Comments

¡Las Sandinistas!

Despite contradictions and convenient omissions, ¡Las Sandinistas! is an eye-opener.

By |November 21st, 2018|Documentary|0 Comments

The Other Side of the Wind

More than 40 years after it began production, Orson Welles's last but longtime unfinished project has finally been completed and paid for by Netflix.

By |November 9th, 2018|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

A documentary that is an act of gratitude and a meditation on the Swedish director’s films.

By |November 2nd, 2018|Documentary, Film History, Top Picks|1 Comment