FILM

The Love that Remains, Hlynur Pálmason. A divorced couple raises a family on what I think is Iceland. The lady is an artist and the man is a fisherman. We see a lot of beautiful scenes of their life by the sea, presumably through the eye of the artist’s work, which captures the beauty and severity of the seasons by the sea, and also what is ineffable about a relationship and a family. The movie is surrealistic and poetic but manages to be this way without feeling pretentious or heavy handed. We really enjoyed it in August of 2026. We streamed it on Criterion.

The Naked Island, Kaneto Shindo. 1962. A couple struggles to farm an island where they have to carry water in buckets from another island in a boat that they have to paddle, and then carry the buckets up a steep hill over and over again. Their two little boys run everywhere and are cool. The scenery is pretty even though the movie is in black and white and I like seeing the color of the ocean in the sunshine. The score is stark and repetitive, but like the movie, beautiful and comforting. Ultimately the movie is sad but it still was really pleasant and nourishing to watch. We watched in on the Criterion subscription platform, and finished it in August of 2026.

PEANUT BUTTER FALCON. South of the Outer Banks of North Carolina a troubled fisherman and a fugitive young man with Down’s Syndrome are brought together by the lord and go through a Huckleberry Finn style hero’s journey to find love and family. We see beautiful nature scenery brought you by nature and an excellent performance by the two men playing the actors on the raft.

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

BERGMAN ISLAND

EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. A mother and daughter resolve their differences in a laundromat over multiple planes of reality. March 25, 2022.

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, MARTIN MCDONAGH.
Martin McDonagh. Two friends on beautiful, antiquated Irish island engage in a petty feud that is tragic and ridiculous. Small towns and men look stupid. The ocean looks good. One loses fingers, the other loses a donkey. October 21, 2022.

LICORICE PIZZA. PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON // A child actor befriends and goes on a long love story with an older lady that tells the story of a certain part of Los Angeles in the 1970s. (2021)

THE GREEN KNIGHT. DAVID LOWERY // A knight who’s drunk and immature fights a tree monster and goes on a psychedelic trip through the forest a long way and it’s a poetic ghost story that’s poetic about life. (2021)

ALL I CAN SAY. DANNY CLINCH, TARYN GOULD, COLLEEN HENNESSEY, SHANNON HOON // A kid from Indiana uses a video camera to predict the future and becomes successful at Rock & Roll. (2019)

THE LAST DANCE. JASON HEHIR // The greatest basketball player ever is documented during a historic season. (2019)

STAR WARS. GEORGE LUCAS // A small town young man gets caught up in intergalactic politics and plays out the fever dream that animates all stories according to a Catholic scholar who was perceptive. Also one gets the sense that they are watching themselves surrender their disbelief. (1977)

THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE. JOHN CASSAVETES // A nightclub owner has a hard time paying off gambling debts and you feel like you’re him. (1976)

Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. (October 5, 2018)
The Big Sick (March 18, 2018)
The Black Panther (March 17, 2018)
A Fantastic Woman (March 16, 2018)
My Beautiful Broken Brain (January 2018)
Be Here to Love Me (October ? 2017)
The Godfather
Superbad
Princess Mononoke
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lost in Translation
The Magician
Pulp Fiction
Ed Wood
Rushmore
Friday
Do The Right Thing