Forrest Cardamenis
@fcardamenis
Film critic who has written for MUBI, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker, Indiewire, and others. More movie thoughts on my Substack:
Shorter Abel Gance: I discovered the essential problem of cinema and then I solved it. It uncovered another problem, but I solved that too. My comrades have not figured it out yet.
Great film but mostly I’m glad it gave me a chance to be clever in this text exchange
@cadenmgardner.bsky.social @willowcatelyn.bsky.social Spotted in the Helsinki Central Library!
Eagle-eyed Tarkovsky heads will recognize this passageway as the entrance to The Zone
Since all the cool kids are doing it…favorite movie of each year I’ve been alive
First time I have ever ordered something at a restaurant and then, immediately after eating it, ordered a second one. (Georgian honey cake, also called medoc or medovik).
In the 1930s Cary Grant fell for women who wore crazy hats (Holiday, Bringing Up Baby) but by the 1940s, he began instead to fall for women whose hats were more normal (His Girl Friday, Notorious).
My NYFF, ranked. You can’t see it here but Foe is at the very end.
A huge problem with this site relative to the bird app is that we just don’t have these kinds of hits. Stuff you can read that is so deranged and false that you and all your buddies can just riff on it for the next 10 minutes and have a great time.