As November staggers to its close, amid an endless avalanche of horrific revelations about terrible men and also whatever calamitous idiocy the U.S. President committed while I was literally writing this sentence, some things are still good. Twin Peaks! Everyone likes Twin Peaks. Guy Maddin’s hockey enthusiasm. Nick and Nora goddamn Charles. We hold tight to these and other bright spots — along with their shadowy, Kingsman-and-Sacred–Deer-clad doubles, always on hand to remind us why we can’t have only nice things — presented here in digest form!
Here’s the monthly wrap. Thanks for reading! And, as the header image hopefully demonstrates, there’ll be more to come in December — your counter-programmings, your Liz & Rick Story Time Hours, your furry-themed holiday celebrations, your yearly retrospectives and #52FilmsByWomen and random asides about things that struck us at the very last moment before we were preparing to hit “publish.” All kinds of things! Stay tuned.
Liz
- The Endlessly Parting Curtains of Twin Peaks
- Happy Death Day and the Slasher Cult of the Teenager
- Recollection v. Repetition in Alien: Covenant
- Channel Zero Misunderstands What Makes Technology Creepy
- The Geeky Sincerity of Guy Maddin’s Voice
- Power, Soft Bodies, and The Big Heat
- The Colonialist Action Movie Logic of The Professional
- The Rich Man’s Burden Runs Deep in Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Rick
- Spooktober Wrap-Up: The Final Conflict
- The Hollow Shocks of The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- Surveillance, Memory, and the Image in Karl Marx City
- Saoirse Ronan is Greta Gerwig is Lady Bird
- The Enduring Appeal of Nick and Nora in The Thin Man
Streaming Selections
- Oddball Films (Stephen Parr, RIP) — a remembrance of San Francisco’s pre-eminent archivist of the Weird, plus Beyond The Black Rainbow, The Five Obstructions, Get Out, and Romeo Is Bleeding
- Starlet — capsules on Starlet, Hatchet For The Honeymoon, Mudbound, My Night at Maud’s, and the Shatterbox Anthology
