Movie Enthusiast

Movie Enthusiast Issue 19: Definitely Not Temp Music

September 19, 2016

Last week the inestimably valuable Every Frame a Painting, the popular series of video essays about filmmaking, covered the recent downtick in memorable...

Movie Enthusiast Issue 18: Stranger Things and Stranger Movies

September 6, 2016

I’ve been watching Stranger Things, the new 8-episode Netflix original series that pays homage to the beloved movies of the 1980s. In the spirit of the...

Movie Enthusiast Issue 17: Movies to See This Fall/Winter

August 15, 2016

My apologies for the delayed newsletter this month. This issue was tragically deleted before I could send it last week and I’ve only now gotten over my...

Movie Enthusiast Issue 16: Hats of Film Noir

August 1, 2016

Film noir is a subgenre built on dependability. The leading men are always world-weary, the dialogue is always snappy, the cinematography is always shadowy,...

Issue 15: Mid-Summer News

July 18, 2016

It's been a rough month for everyone; this week instead of the usual essay, I'm taking a short break and doing a roundup of links instead. We'll return to...

Issue 14: How to Watch a Movie

July 5, 2016

Pardon the late newsletter this week; didn't want to encourage email-checking on a holiday. In 2012, the French film Holy Motors took world of arthouse...

Issue 13: David Fincher and Virtue Ethics

June 20, 2016

Let's talk about David Fincher's Gone Girl. I don't know how this came to mind exactly; it just floated onto the tracks of my train of thought while reading...

Issue 12: Cannes Film Festival in Review

June 6, 2016

Previously on Movie Enthusiast: The Cannes Film Festival got off to an overwhelmingly strong start, with new films from Romania, Germany, South Korea, and...

Issue 11: Cannes 1st Half Roundup

May 16, 2016

The 69th Cannes International Film Festival is underfoot! And boy what an exciting five days we've had already. It's commonly agreed upon that last year's...

Issue 10: The Cannes International Film Festival Approaches

May 2, 2016

There's only one event in the world of film that gets me even more excited than the Oscars, and we're just a few days away from the 2016 edition. Mesdames et...

Issue 09: This Aesthetic Experience Has Been Sponsored by the Luxury Industry

April 18, 2016

A couple of weeks ago, 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen's latest project debuted online. It's not the TV series he was at one point attached to at HBO...

Let's learn about Chinese history through film! (and more)

April 4, 2016

A few weeks ago I saw the avant-garde Chinese movie to end all avant-garde Chinese movies. A few days after that, by some happy accident I happened to watch...

Issue 07: Making the grade—or not

March 21, 2016

Letterboxd, the site I use to keep track of what movies I've seen and where across the web I've had reviews published, released a mobile app at long last....

Issue 06: International Directors A–Z

March 7, 2016

It's Friday night and your dinner plans have suddenly been cancelled because your friends got last-minute tickets to the opera (thanks, Millennials). You're...

Issue 05: Another Year, Another Oscars

February 29, 2016

We did it, everyone! We survived another awards season chock-full of craziness and controversy! Don't look now, but people are already spitballing their 2017...

Issue 04: Survey time! Everyone's a critic—including you; who will be the next Miyazaki?

February 15, 2016

I spent this weekend reading A.O. Scott's Better Living Through Criticism, the thinkpiece-generating book of the moment. Scott is one of the chief critics...

Issue 03: Sundancepalooza, Honoring Jacques Rivette, #OscarsSoWhite

February 1, 2016

January is the month of new beginnings and, more importantly, the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance is always the first in line of the high-profile festivals...

Issue 02: Thoughts on Oscar Nominations, A New Japanese Film Has Me Jazzed, and More

January 18, 2016

Another year, another Oscars. The lead-up to the grand unveiling of the year's anointed “best” is always more exciting than the interstitial month before the...

Issue 01: 5 Movies You Missed, 5 to Watch, 5 to Keep an Eye on

January 4, 2016

Welcome to the first issue of Movie Enthusiast, where Tim enthuses about film! Every issue will follow a slightly different format depending on what's...