The whole process of finding your true nature is one continuous mistake .– Shunryu Suzuki Roshi ‘Tis the day after Christmas and as my thoughts turn to the start of another year, I find myself ruminating on the definition of success and how hard it is to predict […]
This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
The fact that I have to start a discussion of Shalimar (1978) by specifying that this is the English-language version of the film, which is only 60% as long as the Hindi and therefore almost automatically makes less sense than the fuller work, tells you that we are […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden isn’t available this week. Maybe she’s tracking down leads. Maybe she’s lying on a cot in some tattered hotel watching the ceiling fan and thinking about the fallibility of human nature. Maybe she’s looking for answers at the bottom of a tumbler of […]
Sachin Hingoo, like many of you, is Going Through It, and provides a couple of movie recommendations to, in some small way, soothe what ails you.
A dilapidated mansion. An eerie, mist-shrouded forest. A lone samurai making his way home late at night meets a seemingly defenseless beautiful and refined young woman. So begins Kuroneko–Kaneto Shindo’s tale of cats, vengeance, and the wrongs visited upon women (and powerless men) by entitled men. Kuroneko is […]
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