Michael Sarrow
@MSarrow
“SMILE AS YOU KILL” and “Living Room Coffin”
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"SMILE AS YOU KILL" is now available on VOD. If you like contained crime thrillers with dark comedy, this one is for you. STORY: A sick man kidnaps a hotshot advertising director and forces him to create an online campaign for treatment. With both of their lives at stake.…
RIP Béla Tarr. His films, particularly starting with “Almanac of Fall”, perform like magic. For most filmmakers, I understand how their movies work. Storytelling beats, editing rhythms, characterizations. Not with Tarr. I still cannot place why his films are so engrossing,…
I do wonder what it’d be like to write something and not have to worry about how much the location might cost.
“Sorry, Baby” balances between poles at precisely the right moments. Specificity and universality. Awkward dry humor and honest pathos. Unconventional chronology and perfect story construction. Real deal indie filmmaking.
“Werckmeister Harmonies” Encapsulates the tone, theme, setting, pace, and lead character in a single masterpiece of a scene with perfect blocking and choreography.
Of all movie opening scenes, what one sold the entire film the most?
Schrader was an influence, but I beat him to it.
A lot of us said at the time that the Luigi Mangione story sounded like a Paul Schrader film but this is starting to get a little ridiculous. nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/…
Timely.
Watched “Birth” for the first time on Kanopy. Thought I’d be a special unique person to say this is a masterpiece, but apparently the word is already out.
We are so back.
Have you watched the film ‘Sátántangó’ based on 2025 literature laureate László Krasznahorkai’s novel? The novel portrays, in powerfully suggestive terms, a destitute group of residents on an abandoned collective farm in the Hungarian countryside just before the fall of…
You can only eat cuisine from one of these regions for the rest of your life. What kind of cuisine are you?
One of my best theater experiences. In 2008, lost footage was discovered for Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” almost 80 years after the film released. In 2010, the film was restored. I saw the North American premiere of that cut at the Chinese Theatre with a live score by the Alloy…
oomfs have you ever seen a movie with a live orchestra? ive seen into the spiderverse it was PEAK
Sometimes I’m watching a movie, and it’s so good by the midpoint that I get anxious if it’ll stick the landing. Pleased to report “Valley of the Bees” lands the plane. What a picture.
Two from “SMILE AS YOU KILL”
As a society we’re losing the art of dissolves in film and that saddens me
Yeah, I know how you feel.
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🎉 Congrats to the 2025 Big Break Screenwriting Contest Quarterfinalists! These fantastic scripts were selected from over 12,000 submissions. Thank you to all the writers who entered for sharing your incredible stories with us. See the Quarterfinalists: hubs.ly/Q03DXz2c0
When I was unemployed, I would go to Barnes and Noble every day looking for the latest Film Comment, Sight and Sound, and Film Quarterly to read. Huge source of discovery for me and an essential part of my film education. I’m optimistic about the potential for discovery with…
Good critics love to champion the underseen and the unappreciated. Maybe artists won't miss the pans, but they sure will miss having someone to spread the word about good work that's struggling to find its audience.
Should class inequality within healthcare be a topic for entertainment fodder? Sounds morally dubious… But everyone should check out “SMILE AS YOU KILL” the indie thriller about a sick man who plots a kidnapping to raise money online! It even predates Luigi. Streaming free.
Good critics love to champion the underseen and the unappreciated. Maybe artists won't miss the pans, but they sure will miss having someone to spread the word about good work that's struggling to find its audience.
Hooray! Not only is Eclipse back, they are doing Blu Ray upgrades. Mizoguchi set first please.
ECLIPSE IS BACK! 🎞️ 💚 This November, we're is thrilled to relaunch our Eclipse line—a continuing series of lost, forgotten, or overshadowed films presented in simple, affordable box set editions—with Abbas Kiarostami's early films! bit.ly/47jWMk5 We're upgrading the…
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