YEAR ENDER: Joshua Polanski’s Top Ten Films of 2024
From Romania to the Moon of Mara
From Romania to the Moon of Mara
6/28 @ The Coolidge
"I'm the conduit for the director for all the visual effects that they need to execute."
Streaming on Netflix
In a cinema culture marked by decadence and decaying individuality, the best films of the year creatively resist the studio destruction of art and suppression of vision with bold statements of visual-sonic distinction.
Carrying the torch of both Kurosawa and Caravaggio into politicized modernity, A Child of Fire must be considered one of the most artistically dexterous blockbusters of the century.
“It’s the greatest gladiator match in the history of the world,” is how Lex Luthor describes the titular battle millions of people…