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Tim Basaraba – Damn marketing departments! They’re always peddling something. After the success of highbrow horror films VVITCH, It Comes at Night and Hereditary, A24’s marketing department decided to peddle their recent release, Lamb, as a “horror” film, which does the viewer a great disservice.
Tim Basaraba – Listed below are my top 21 films of 2021….twice. The film viewing experience is sacred to me and it wouldn’t be fair to our readers if I didn’t distinguish between films I saw in the theater and those I streamed at home.
Tim Basaraba – Before I give you my thoughts on the second film by French director Julia Ducournau, I’d like to give you some additional context…to let you in on my tastes.
Tim Basaraba – Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver, which means he gets to direct a film every five years and we are all supposed to pay attention. I haven’t seen very many of them, so I am in no way a Schrader aficionado. I do, however, know he crafts compelling stories, and, if he can get the right actors, most of his films are successful.
Justin Chon’s first film, Gook (2017), which he wrote, directed and starred in, was recognized with several awards on the indie festival circuit. He then wrote and directed Ms. Purple (2019) to similar acclaim. He returns as a triple threat in 2021’s Blue Bayou – a story of an American tragically misconstrued as an immigrant even though he’s lived in the U.S. his whole life.
