Eileen Jones
Contributing Editor/Film Critic at Jacobin
I write about film for Jacobin magazine and have a podcast called Filmsuck. Survived many years of teaching at UC Berkeley's Department of Film and Media.
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4 days ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
A lot has been written about the IP problem besetting mainstream filmmaking today. IP, or intellectual property, refers to all the preexisting material adapted to film by studios and producers. It’s a way of minimizing financial risk by relying on familiar sources that have already found favor with consumers.
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1 week ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
Though an excruciating movie to watch, even by cringe comedy standards, Friendship is a popular indie film that’s gone into wide release. The feature debut of writer-director Andrew DeYoung, who’s mainly worked in television (Our Flag Means Death, Pen15), Friendship is surprisingly well-done, sustaining a limited conceit long enough to make you consider the oddities of friendship between men in particular, and the increasingly common phenomenon of the isolated male.
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1 week ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
I brightened up over the The Final Reckoning part of the new Mission: Impossible title, figuring if it really is the final reckoning, we all have something to celebrate. After all, retirements are happy occasions. And Tom Cruise is finally showing his age a wee bit, looking in certain shots as if his face had puffed up like a Pillsbury crescent roll and in others as if it had melted slightly like ice cream.
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2 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
The riveting new Criterion Channel film series “Noir and the Blacklist” is distressingly timely. It’s a sampling of film noir made by Hollywood directors, writers, and actors who were targeted as communists or broadly left-wing “subversives” by their own government in the post–World War II era by a punitive right-wing body called the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
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4 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
Florence Pugh is so terrific in Thunderbolts* that she carries an entire Marvel movie on her shoulders. She manages this throughout the otherwise largely cumbersome Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) proceedings all while making you laugh at her dark dry wit and delight in her tough, no-nonsense fighting skills. You believe in her nearly suicidal depression and even tear up a bit at her most poignant moment in the film.
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n this "Tribute to the Totally Forgotten," I celebrate the career of tap-dancer Eleanor Powell, who was so good she intimidated the legendary Fred Astaire, who complained, "She dances like a man." Her mentor was Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. https://t.co/JPc5zpyMi2 https://t.co/bX9HjmTn94
My review of SNOW WHITE, which is lucky to have Rachel Zegler in it, because at least she salvages something out of this trainwreck: https://t.co/v8hLw5rsyn
Latest Filmsuck episode, audiovisual and open to the public! It's the celebratory when-Dolores-interviewed-director-Todd-Haynes episode! https://t.co/j8sMlPZPBn https://t.co/KNbiPDDPNd