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July 2025

Summer Forever: On Jacques Rozier's Near Orouët
The film I found myself thinking of while watching Jacques Rozier’s Near Orouët was Pierre Créton and Vincent Barré’s nature walk documentary 7 Walks…
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"Your Being Manipulated": On Ari Aster's Eddington
Ari Aster’s Eddington is of a piece with a few other new releases, namely Takeshi Kitano’s Broken Rage and Bruno Dumont’s The Empire, which use satire…
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The Hills are Alive: On Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us
I’m not sure why I skipped The Wind Will Carry Us when I first went through Kiarostami’s films, but this is clearly a major work, a synthesis of the…
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Eric Zhu
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June 2025

The Insert July 2025: The Best Films of the Year (thus far)
plus: a new Ratings Page, The Insert Movie Club
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Death and Transfiguration: 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, 2025)
Boyle-hood in the age of the internet
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Eric Zhu
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New Releases: The Phoenician Scheme, Vulcanizadora, Materialists
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson, 2025):
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Eric Zhu
Pride Month Extras: The Illiac Passion , The Death of Louis XIV
The Illiac Passion (Gregory Markopoulos, 1967):
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The Empire (Bruno Dumont, 2024)
Bruno Dumont's satirical space opera is good, actually
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Eric Zhu
Exposé du film annonce du film “Scenario”, Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard, 2024)
On Godard's two posthumous shorts.
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Eric Zhu
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May 2025

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