under the skin / not chocolate cake
What: a non-mortal in ScarJo-clothing preys upon men in dreary Scotland, effectively depicting the plight of being a woman in a cruel,...
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- Sep 3, 2019
austere luxury / graceful grains
Food movies are few and far between, but Babette’s Feast is likely the pinnacle of them.
- Sep 2, 2019
Cold nostalgia / trash candy
The End of the Tour, unintentionally a food movie.
- Sep 2, 2019
Pieta / a consolation eel
What to pair with a screening of Kim Kim-duk's cruel psycho-sexual drama?
- Aug 29, 2019
blanched optimism / american standbys
+ WANDA (Barbara Loden, 1970) Wanda, you've been on my mind. Your movements frantic and outsized, but motivations sequestered. Your...
- Aug 29, 2019
gritty city, disinfectant gin
THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS as it turns out is the miasma of desperate ambition and compulsory workaholism spread thin between fame and...
- Aug 25, 2019
Muddled dreams / bad coffee
Tom DiCillo's oneiric film Living in Oblivion unfolds less like sleep paralysis and more elliptically like Groundhog Day.
- Aug 25, 2019
sqirl / gemini
I have never been to Sqirl. My toes have not graced the state of California in fact since the place opened. But, Jessica Koslow’s cooking...
- Dec 7, 2018
a little romance / a can of beans
A LITTLE ROMANCE George Roy Hill, 1979 Romance when transposed onto the likes of tykes yields tenderness. She's a bougie American living...
- Jul 30, 2018
Sota Atsumi x Le Samourai
In the onyx and marble den of Chef's Club: French techniques with a Japanese flourish from Sota Atsumi of highly acclaimed Paris bistro...
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