Bijou Blog
Creative and critical movie writing from the Ped Mall to the moon!
Regular features on the Bijou Blog include reviews, personal and critical essays, creative work, coverage of the True/False film festival, our Youtube Cine-Club, and more! Open to the public for submissions! Submit to bijoubloggers@gmail.com using the format:
Submission title / author name + bio / piece (uploaded as a Doc)
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Medicine for Melancholy
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
This Friday, November 18th, FilmScene will be playing what is arguably the most acclaimed movie of the year, Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight. Before Moonlight, though, Jenkins wrote and directed Medicine for Melancholy some eight years ago now. The most immediately noticeable aspect about Medicine for Melancholy is its starkness.
Gimme Danger and 1973's Raw Power
Sunday, November 13, 2016
On Friday, November 4th, FilmScene began showing the new documentary from Jim Jarmusch, Gimme Danger, explores the influential proto-punk act famously led by Iggy Pop, the Stooges. In celebration of the upcoming movie and the Stooges, the Bijou Blog will be posting reviews of the Stooges first three albums.
Gimme Danger and 1970's Funhouse
Saturday, November 5, 2016
On Friday, November 4th, FilmScene began screening the new documentary from Jim Jarmusch, Gimme Danger, explores the influential proto-punk act famously led by Iggy Pop, the Stooges. In celebration of the movie and the Stooges, the Bijou Blog will be posting reviews of the Stooges first three albums.
The Stooges and Gimme Danger
Thursday, November 3, 2016
On Friday, November 4th, FilmScene will be showing the new documentary from Jim Jarmusch, Gimme Danger, explores the influential proto-punk act famously led by Iggy Pop, the Stooges.
Little Men (2016)
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Little Men (2016) is a movie of understatement – like intuiting a pain but being unable to locate the source.
INDIGNATION
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
In James Schamus’s directorial debut Indignation, the mounting tension is so incremental one might startle themselves by gasping for air when the credits roll.
HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX: The Technology is Political
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
What is the point of HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX? As a record of the late sixties and early seventies counterculture, it certainly has historical value. The treasure trove of archival material is truly invaluable to anyone interested in the era.
Embrace of the Serpent: A Call to Remember
Monday, April 11, 2016
In the early 20th Century, German scientist Theodor Koch-Grunberg searches for a rare plant in the Amazon. A few decades later, American scientist Richard Evans Schultes embarks on the same quest.
Son of Saul
Friday, March 4, 2016
The Holocaust is truly something impossible to comprehend. This genocide functioned as the horrific and logical conclusion of the industrial revolution, as an estimated 11 million people were exterminated with the precision and efficiency of a Ford assembly line.
Cronies (2015)
Friday, February 26, 2016
In Cronies, written and directed by Michael J. Larnell, the interviewer probes central character Louis Johnson on whether or not he’s in love with the woman he happens to live with.