Christopher Lloyd

Feb 12, 2025 | filmyap.substack.com | Christopher Lloyd

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Director Molly O’Brien made this documentary of her only surviving family member, her aunt Orin O’Brien, who joined the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1966 as a double bassist — the only female at the time — and stayed more than a half-century.

Feb 12, 2025 | filmyap.substack.com | Christopher Lloyd

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. You ever wonder where those cheap clothes and gadgets we buy from online sources come from? Often it’s sweat shops employing underage children in horrible conditions — like those seen in “Anuja.” She works in a dress factory with her older sisters, living alone in a New Delhi ghetto after their mother died.

Feb 12, 2025 | filmyap.substack.com | Christopher Lloyd

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Dong-Dong is a Japanese boy who does not play with others, preferring to shoot marbles and hang around with his dog, Gusuri. One day he buys some candies that turn out to be magical. One that resembles the same pattern as their couch allows it to speak with him, complaining about a nettlesome remote control stuck in its cushions and his father’s flatulence.

Jan 28, 2025 | filmyap.substack.com | Christopher Lloyd

Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. “The Girl with the Needle” is one of those films that stubbornly refuses to fit into any neat category. It wears the clothes of a historical prestige drama, the sort of thing that gets nominated for awards — and indeed, just last week the Dutch film was a surprise nominee in the Academy Awards for best international feature.

Dec 17, 2024 | filmyap.substack.com | Christopher Lloyd

Everything edgy eventually becomes conventional, whether it’s music, politics or movies. The early Aardman Animations efforts were quirky, puckish stop-motion animation with a distinctly British lilt. They’ve reached the point where they’re cinematic comfort food, familiar slices of homespun confection made to delight audiences from age 3 to 103.