Akis LalosPilgrim, Jalāl ad-Dīn’s tomb contains no body: Queen of the Desert (2015)15 February 20173 min read·Feb 11, 2021----
Akis LalosNot knowing if you know, it is all there: The Beaches of Agnès (2008)So I finally arrive for the last leg of my journey with Varda in this self portrait. I will rest here for the time being with the…4 min read·Dec 1, 2020----
Akis LalosSplintered selves: Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)You must have Pabst in your life at some point. Time it well, seek out a few silents beforehand. It was an exciting era for movies anyway…5 min read·Nov 2, 2020----
Akis LalosBlack lives and sharing the inner city out in the open: The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)There’s nothing quite like being able to enter a world as it is of itself, unmediated by the niceties and formalities of having to make…3 min read·Oct 26, 2020----
Akis LalosA critic’s imagination intruding: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)There’s a great film here but you’ll have to dig down in the basement for it.4 min read·Aug 13, 2020----
Akis LalosMischievous eluding and the mechanisms of illusion: Trouble in Paradise (1932)For cinema of this era I go to Pabst for ecstatic hovering out of self, the self that finds itself at the mercy of narratives; a true…3 min read·Aug 9, 2020----
Akis LalosThe Girl with the Hat Box (1927): A modern world out the window29 March 20122 min read·Jul 23, 2020----
Akis LalosGeorge Carlin, Life is Worth Losing (2005): Against the cynics16 April 20161 min read·Jul 13, 2020----
Akis LalosShadows (1959): New jazz dharmaThis really is the one that changed everything.3 min read·Jul 9, 2020----
Akis LalosMr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): Impassioned belief in the American storyWell, this is just a big piece of Capra myth. The values are admirable of course. The scope of it is appealing as is taking us inside…3 min read·Jul 9, 2020----
