Snobbin: Beautiful Trash in the Pop Culture Gutter

With a script by Samuel Fuller, this hardboiled Douglas Sirk noir does not disappoint if you like crisp dialogue, tight pacing, and disillusioned characters.

Joan Micklin Silver's breezy "hit" comedy relies more on the societal expectations for human connection than the fairy tale "will they, won't they" of the average rom com.

Jack Lemmon plays bamboozled straight man to Walter Matthau's audacious and award-winning turn as ambulance chasing lawyer, "Whiplash" Willie Gingrich, as they bargain for a huge settlement. Another Wilder gem that engages and surprises; however, the film doesn't allow Lemmon to let loose as much as I'd like.

Sight and Sound 2021 #93. Senegalese magic realism meets the French New Wave in the guise of a lover's journey.

I watched another film from the 2022 Sight and Sound Critics' poll: # 52, Chantal Akerman's 1976 documentary, where she reads letters from her mother in Belgium over footage of her new home, New York City. The distance between them feels more palpable with each letter.