To be bold, to dare to be stupid: this single frame in The Great Dictator is the most essential frame occurring in Charles Chaplin’s filmography. It is the most elegant and achy navigation out of comedy, straight through tragedy, and into something like the human struggle ever captured by camera. Read More
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Frank Falisi is a writer and actor living in Freehold, New Jersey. He writes gooey poems disguised as music reviews for Tiny Mix Tapes and loves his dog very much.
Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is a startling experience in how incomprehension, grief, and love can reshape the world. Read More
“Deep listening” to Malick is valuable, but only so much in that it reminds us that artists are just humans doing their best to be in the world with other humans. Read More
Hot Rod is an activist text. It is not escapist; its weirdness calls attention to the flaws of our world instead of distracting from them. Read More
Relocating care and running through the invisible world in Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy. Read More