Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallGoodbye, yellow brick roadMore than a documentary about the Sondheim show that got away, BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED is a silver linings playbookJul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallBait and switchNatalie Wood was a magnificent actress whose body of work has sadly been overshadowed by her tragic death. WHAT REMAINS BEHIND seems to…Jun 30, 2020Jun 30, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallMessages from/for the future (Berlin, Berlin part 3)Or how LAST AND FIRST MEN and BAD TALES suggested ominous previews of what is to come in a festival that everyone saw as a harbinger for a…Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallBerlin, Berlin (part 2)Where I discuss the American embassy to the 2020 Berlinale and fawn over FIRST COW and NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYSMar 13, 2020Mar 13, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallBerlin, Berlin (part I)Where I set the scene for my memory journal of the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, and register my disappointments with this year’s winning…Mar 10, 2020Mar 10, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallThe seagullI have no idea what Robert Eggers’ THE LIGHTHOUSE actually is, other than a strikingly realised fever dream of insecurity, gaslighting and…Feb 15, 2020Feb 15, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallThe lion doesn’t sleep tonightLES MISÉRABLES, Ladj Ly’s Oscar-nominated Cannes award-winner, is a powerful indictment of structural neglect in the Parisian projects…Feb 12, 2020Feb 12, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallThe system only dreams in total darknessNoah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY is a tale of divorce as an unwitting slow-motion disasterFeb 8, 2020Feb 8, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallOne singular sensationFOSSE/VERDON isn’t about Broadway, but an impressionistic, absorbing take on life as art and art as life, told like a fragmented sensory…Feb 5, 2020Feb 5, 2020
Jorge Mourinhainthe flickering wallThe house they live inGreta Gerwig’s LITTLE WOMEN is irresistible, moving, full of life — the perfect embodiment of the ideal of AmericaJan 31, 2020Jan 31, 2020