frank falisi
@frankfalisi.bsky.social
"miscreant perpetrator of low burlesque"
writing at: reverse shot, bright wall/dark room, larb, tiny mix tapes, etc.
writing at: reverse shot, bright wall/dark room, larb, tiny mix tapes, etc.
thanks to @chadperman.bsky.social for tending a space for this kind of ramble, @eccantwell.bsky.social for copy edits based in care, and Ozzy Osbourne for teaching me how to sing
New today on the site!
Our Jonathan Demme issue continues, with @frankfalisi.bsky.social on the glories of community theater and WHO AM I THIS TIME?, a little seen, 53 minute movie Demme made for PBS based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, with Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken in 1982.
Our Jonathan Demme issue continues, with @frankfalisi.bsky.social on the glories of community theater and WHO AM I THIS TIME?, a little seen, 53 minute movie Demme made for PBS based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, with Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken in 1982.
Who Am I This Time? (1982): What We Did For Love
Between the four lines that form a televisual frame, Jonathan Demme’s Who Am I This Time? is among the most romantic gestures ever set to film.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
thanks to @chadperman.bsky.social for tending a space for this kind of ramble, @eccantwell.bsky.social for copy edits based in care, and Ozzy Osbourne for teaching me how to sing
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what else is there to say? "We are trying to protect our dreams."
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Film Show 047: Rashid Masharawi
An interview with the Palestinian filmmaker about his new feature-length movie 'Passing Dreams', the Gazan omnibus film 'From Ground Zero', and setting up workshops and screenings in refugee camps
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January 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
what else is there to say? "We are trying to protect our dreams."
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on the treachery of jukebox musicals as art history or: "because something is happening here but you don't know what it is"
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A Complete Unknown
Its willingness to paint sixties establishment folkies as potentially just as extractive as their more legibly villainous record mogul counterparts would have meant something if the film had any inter...
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January 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
on the treachery of jukebox musicals as art history or: "because something is happening here but you don't know what it is"
reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
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still stuck in the ballroom writing about The Caretaker, but imagine my delight when the film most suited to those crumbled sounds is this haunted goof
New today on the site! A new issue—The Best of 2024—begins, with @frankfalisi.bsky.social on HERE:
"There is no filmmaker working today whose instincts fuse more directly at the intersection of mad science and medically-induced emotionality quite like Bob Zemeckis."
"There is no filmmaker working today whose instincts fuse more directly at the intersection of mad science and medically-induced emotionality quite like Bob Zemeckis."
Gibraltar May Crumble | Here (2024)
In Robert Zemeckis’s Here, boomerism reveals itself as the most outdated technology of all, not by virtue of an elegant thesis, but simply because it executes the exact same experiment over and over a...
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January 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
still stuck in the ballroom writing about The Caretaker, but imagine my delight when the film most suited to those crumbled sounds is this haunted goof