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 playbook·4 min read·Jul 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…·5 min read·Jun 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…·4 min read·Mar 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 ALWAYS·6 min read·Mar 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…·5 min read·Mar 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…·4 min read·Feb 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…·4 min read·Feb 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 disaster·4 min read·Feb 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…·5 min read·Feb 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 America·4 min read·Jan 31, 2020----