alex lei
@alexlei.bsky.social
lost in the sauce | “writer” and “filmmaker” | he/him alexlei.neocities.com
Next month, I’m teaming up with @alexlei.bsky.social of @bruisermag.com for a double feature of Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer upstairs at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. 8/26 at 7pm; $10 suggested donation See you there…
talked with Georgia Bernstein about her wonderfully weird, watery debut NIGHT NURSE filmmaker.substack.com/p/take-care-...
Take Care: Georgia Bernstein on “Night Nurse”
The director talks about her psychosexual first feature.
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NOW AVAILABLE FROM ANURAN PRESS Physical/digital copies of film zines “Kinema: A Japan Travelogue” and “Drying Out at the Movies” + Kinema stickers, Onomichi photo prints and a Nightmare Alley chirashi poster by @ramonvillalobos.bsky.social anuranpress.bigcartel.com
the only Philip K. Dick retrospective you'll read today with multiple paragraphs about Richard Linklater's worst-ever collaborator, Alex Jones
The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 4w ago20 years later, the real world has begun to look uncannily like a dystopia imagined by Philip K. Dick. We revisit A Scanner Darkly: www.avclub.com/a-scanner-da...
wrote about the greatest Philip K. Dick adaptation of all time www.avclub.com/a-scanner-da...
A Scanner Darkly is the near-future Philip K. Dick film that always feels set in the present
20 years later, the navel-gazing of Richard Linklater's rotoscoped sci-fi take on A Scanner Darkly is as fresh as ever.
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“After I made that film, quite a few people said to me, ‘You made me look up at the windows.’” @alexlei.bsky.social talks with @lynnesachs.bsky.social about her investigative approach to filmmaking and latest film, EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE
i spoke with Shunji Iwai about his writing process, music taste, digital cinematography, and more www.screenslate.com/articles/mus...
Music and Film: A Conversation with Shunji Iwai
The perfect expression of Shunji Iwai’s filmmaking comes at the centerpoint of All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), when a group of teen boys film their trip to Okinawa on a consumer-grade camcorder. It’s...
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it’s a rare treat to find a filmmaker that immediately becomes one your cinematic heroes. even rarer, do you get to talk them. i had the immense honor of speaking with Želimir Žilnik documentary.org/online-featu...
Where Is Ours?: Želimir Žilnik on Collaboration, Low-Budget Filmmaking, and Eighty Plus
Želimir Žilnik discusses six decades of work from his early films to Eighty Plus, and their piercing, political critiques of Yugoslavia and modern-day Serbia
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wrote about the state of our old friend, the reluctant analyst/supersoldier Jack Ryan www.avclub.com/jack-ryan-to...
Tom Clancy is gone, and Jack Ryan is nothing but advertising
Once synonymous with his geopolitically mature creator, Jack Ryan has gone the way of most conservative media: emptier and more cruel.
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had a great time chatting with Sho Miyake, who is quickly becoming one of the most quietly exciting filmmakers in Japan filmmakermagazine.com/133749-inter...
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“…with each of the films there is this giving oneself over to the movie gods, praying at their altar and hopefully receiving their gifts. And consistently receiving them.” @alexlei.bsky.social talks with Pete Ohs about his latest film, ERUPCJA, now playing at The Charles Theater
BRUISER PRESENTS: ‘CITY WIDE FEVER’ a film by Josh Heaps Playing Baltimore Friday, May 15th 8pm at the Mercury Theater
talked to Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe about her extraordinary debut, ARO BERRIA, for Filmmaker filmmakermagazine.com/133648-inter...
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online now: my roundup from the 27th Maryland Film Festival filmmakermagazine.com/133637-maryl...
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Since @alexlei.bsky.social hasn't posted it here, this is his new column on Kurosawa Kiyoshi :3
Shiny and Oh So Bleak
Denial of our "new normal" in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's post-pandemic films. || Alex Lei
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for the 20th anniversary of Aaron Katz’s DANCE PARTY, USA premiering at SXSW, i took a look back at the scrappy legacy that gave the festival and Austin the DIY clout it rests on today www.avclub.com/sxsw-mumblec...
SXSW has moved on, but mumblecore preserves its legacy
20 years after Dance Party USA premiered, a DIY movement, a film festival, and a city have all taken a turn.
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wrote about Robert Duvall’s extraordinary physical presence www.avclub.com/robert-duval...
Robert Duvall's strength was finding the blood in stony men
A rock-solid physical presence, the Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall always let emotion dance behind his eyes.
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“About a mile up the road in a strip mall was where the cinema was happening…” @alexlei.bsky.social reports on Sundance’s final outing to Park City
wrote a few weeks ago about what i think is Robert Duvall’s finest film www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...
Shut Up and Drive
The Outfit (1973) is an audacious and violent crime film by John Flynn from Richard Stark's novel. || Alex Lei
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“I believe in resuscitation” might as well be a manifesto for the troupe itself. @alexlei.bsky.social reports on CIMINO’S DEFEAT, the latest production from the vital Brooklyn-based theater company Adult Film
as the Sundance dust starts to settle, The Lake has emerged as one of my favorites—for Doc Mag, i talked to Abby Ellis about her thrilling, apocalyptic and skeptically optimistic film about the efforts to save the Great Salt Lake documentary.org/online-featu...
Environmental Horror: Abby Ellis Talks About Luring Audiences into Watching ‘The Lake’
Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake
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went long on Magellan, and how it stands less as a new leap in his cinema and instead is a part of his longterm project excising the ghosts of Filipino history www.avclub.com/lav-diaz-mag...
There's never been a better time to get in on the guy who makes the world's longest films
Magellan welcomes a new audience to the challenging, slow-burn work of Lav Diaz with a perfectly representative movie.
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wrote about how James Cameron used the tropes & imagery Western in the Avatar films and how his adaptation of the genre reduces it of its complexity www.avclub.com/james-camero...
James Cameron tried to bring the Western into the future, but only went backwards
Avatar: Fire And Ash shows how clearly James Cameron has regressed towards the worst tropes of the Western.
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“Ahead of its latest installment playing at New/Next, I kept asking around about what the hell Reveries actually was. ‘It’s hard to describe.’ ‘You just have to see it.’ ‘It’s, like, two guys riffing. But trippy.’” @alexlei.bsky.social interviews the trio behind the REVERIES series
had a great chat with Elena Oxman on her stunning debut OUTERLANDS, which effortlessly bounces between a first-person realism and a surprising poetic inflection filmmakermagazine.com/132649-inter...
“Withholding Information Makes You More Engaged”: Elena Oxman on “Outerlands”
After a run-in with a new coworker at the laundromat, Cass (Asia Kate Dillon) has a drunken hookup with Kalli (Louisa Krause). Kalli seems to take an immediate trusting to Cass, and after Cass tells…
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