Finally taking Carmen Jones off our Blind Spot list.
The worse thing about love is not the pain that comes when it is lost. It is the realization that the opportunity for love was present, but we let it slip through our fingers. The lingering regre...
In Chris Marker’s brilliant 1962 short film La Jetée, the narrator states that “nothing tells memories from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance on the account of scar...
“I wonder what Alfred Hitchcock would have thought of Donald Trump?” A strange thought, I know, but this is what crossed my mind while watching May’s Blind Spot selection Rope. Though the n...
Oh, those drunken moments in our lives. The times that, depending on one’s recollection of the events, can either result in lively revelry, inflated confidence, embarrassment or self-doubt just...
https://cinemaaxis.com/2016/04/25/blind-spot-withnail-and-i/
In the forty or so films that I have watched as part of this series, The Big Sleep might be the first one that I completely adored despite being baffled by its plot more than once. Frankly, it go...
How does one unpack the poetic beauty of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust? It is a film that promotes the importance of the past, while simultaneously debunking some of the myths that come wi...
https://cinemaaxis.com/2016/02/20/blind-spot-daughters-of-the-dust/
Denis Villeneuve’s 2011 Oscar nominated film Incendies is a stunning piece of storytelling. It is a thriller in which the journey towards uncovering the central mystery is as shocking as the re...
As the year quickly comes to a close, it is time to start thinking about next year’s Blind Spot Series. Created four years ago by James McNally, and championed by Ryan McNeil, the series is des...
I guess it is fitting, in my own morbid way, that I would imprint a recent memory of my own on a film all about memory. Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour will always have a unique place in my ...
https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/10/27/blind-spot-hiroshima-mon-amour/
Childhood nostalgia is such a personal thing that debating the merits of that which brought us so much joy in our youth seems like a pointless endeavor. Similar to the never ending Coke versus Pe...
https://cinemaaxis.com/2015/09/28/blind-spot-the-monster-squad/
It is a testament to Jules Dassin’s direction that Rififi can still knock one’s socks off. In an era where the tropes of the heist genre are being repurposed for everything from Marvel films ...