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2026-01-31T18:22:26-04:00

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Atlantic City: The French on the Shore

Last updated on: January 31, 2026 at 6:22 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I am from New Jersey. This is no secret. I love seeking out movies by our filmmakers, but perhaps the most intriguing is when someone from elsewhere (rather rarely) decides to represent the Garden State. How, then, could I avoid Louis Malle’s Atlantic City (1980)? A Frenchman takes on the Shore? With Burt Lancaster? Sign me up. As a sign near the building where our main characters live announces: “Atlantic City, you’re back. Again!” AC seems always to be in... Read more

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2026-01-26T12:48:19-04:00

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Maps to the Stars: Hollywood Babylon

Last updated on: January 26, 2026 at 12:48 pm By Chase Padusniak

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David Cronenberg is a treasure. I’m not breaking any new ground there, but I had the pleasure of watching his (criminally underrated) Maps to the Stars (2014), his Mulholland Drive (2001), if you will. Lynch and Cronenberg, whatever some may say, don’t have all that much in common, of course. Maps to the Stars is not about (not precisely anyway) a young woman chasing her dreams in Hollywood. But it is a trenchant, animated takedown of all things show business,... Read more

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2026-01-26T12:44:38-04:00

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Family Viewing: Grain and Fuzz

Last updated on: January 26, 2026 at 12:44 pm By Chase Padusniak

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If you’ve seen an Atom Egoyan movie, you know he likes to watch. Or, better put, he likes to show us how we watch. His films are filled with two-way mirrors, camcorders, and screens. Usually, voyeurism features, to use a strong word, as a perversion in Egoyan’s films. Not always and not unambiguously. But to be obsessed with watching is to lose one’s grip on reality, or at least the things that matter. I turned to Family Viewing (1987), Egoyan’s... Read more

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2026-01-04T17:12:01-04:00

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54: Let the Good Times Roll

Last updated on: January 4, 2026 at 5:12 pm By Chase Padusniak

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A new year, an older movie—1998’s 54, the tale of one 19-year-old’s whirlwind experience at the mythical Studio 54. When I put it on, I never expected the film to dovetail so well with the concerns of my new podcast with Sam McIlhagga, Death Is a Photograph, on which we explore the aesthetic and cultural ephemera of the “end of history.” Our first season on Gen X has brought us back to a question again and again: how did the... Read more

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2026-01-03T20:44:29-04:00

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In the Mood for Love: Not in the Mood

Last updated on: January 3, 2026 at 8:44 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Well, let me sin. Not boldly but of necessity. Of course, the sin is not, per se, the mood In the Mood for Love (2000) put me in; rather, it’s in the sharing. But I’ll take the risk. The year ends in a few hours and that, I think, betokens boldness. I’d seen two Wong Kar-wai films before this go: Chungking Express (1994), seen long enough ago that the only remainder is a blur of colorful images, shot as if... Read more

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2025-12-24T14:45:33-04:00

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Yi Yi: Simply Having a Melancholic Christmas Time

Last updated on: December 24, 2025 at 2:45 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Confiteor: Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000) stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the great canon of films I’ve put off. At nearly three hours and promising to trace generations of family history, the movie daunts. Can daunt be used intransitively? I’m not sure. But I am sure Yi Yi daunted. Wim Wenders’ films have the same effect on me. Sometimes fear wins. Though—and this is the message of Christmas, isn’t it?—not forever. The long nights and dim lighting of winter stirred just the... Read more

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2025-12-20T18:17:28-04:00

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The Bishop’s Wife: Cary Does Christmas

Last updated on: December 20, 2025 at 6:17 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Along with the half the Eastern Seaboard, I’ve been incredibly sick the last week or so. What better to do than watch a bunch of movies? Grade papers, of course. But when done with papers? Well, fall asleep. When not sleeping? Uh, walk the dogs in the snow. But—after that: watch 1947’s The Bishop’s Wife. I don’t know if anyone considers this a Christmas classic, because I’d barely heard of it, let alone seen it, before this brief winter battle... Read more

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2025-12-14T16:39:48-04:00

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Poison: Nascent Todd Haynes

Last updated on: December 14, 2025 at 4:39 pm By Chase Padusniak

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I love Todd Haynes, or at least his films. He and I share a love of Fassbinder and Sirk. He’s turned that into a career. I have Letterboxd. But tut tut to our differences, I’d like to talk about what brings us together: humanity. Not the concept, no. Not even the anthropological reality of sharing a species. Rather, I find Haynes’ films so fascinating because of their willful combination of artifice and genuine interest in the complex moral frameworks developed... Read more

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2025-12-07T18:45:15-04:00

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Crossfire: Works Progress Cinema

Last updated on: December 7, 2025 at 6:45 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Busy week and brief write-up. Over on the Criterion Channel, I glimpsed a Robert Mitchum noir, Crossfire (1947), that gave me more than I bargained for. I just wanted to watch Mitchum do his thing. Lurid late-40s shadows and a gritty story appeared as two (semi-expected) pluses. But Crossfire offers more than typical noir fare. We remember these films for their post-war cynicism. They form a set of grim reflections indicative of an easily forgotten window between the Depression and... Read more

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2025-11-28T16:32:41-04:00

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Network: Install with Ease

Last updated on: November 28, 2025 at 4:32 pm By Chase Padusniak

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On Warren Zevon’s 1989 dystopian concept album Transverse City, there is a song called “Networking.” The chorus goes: Networking, I’m user friendly. Networking, I install with ease. Data processed, truly Basic. I will upload you, you can download me. Thirteen years earlier, MGM released Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976), a satire of the US television industry in which an Edward R. Murrow-esque new anchor ages his way into latter-day prophethood. His show excoriating the decadence and paltriness of late 70s America... Read more

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