For my 26th birthday, I gave myself the blu ray remastered version of Luchino Visconti’s Death In Venice released by the Criterion Collection as a present, a masterpiece I haven’t re-watched since the first time […]
What’s In My Bag? (2019 Music)
It’s not even April and 2019 has everything to be a big year for music. Bands like Vampire Weekend, Tame Impala, Cage the Elephant, Friendly Fires, Lana Del Rey and Fat White Family are about […]
A Look Inside Young Chet by William Claxton
Chet Baker has been a growing obsession since I’ve discovered him back in 2015. Being one of the youngest jazz musicians of his time, Baker had a turbulent life growing up with his father, trying […]
Revisiting the Before Trilogy
It’s Saturday night and I’ve just watched Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight on a row. I’ve been planning to do this since I bought the Criterion Collection Blu Ray set and decided it […]
A Decade in Film: 10 Years 100 Movies – Final Part
Papiro & Mint is back with the last installment of the article A Decade in Film: 10 Years 100 Movies. Since 2019 marks the last year of the 2010 decade, I’ve decided to gather the […]
A Decade in Film: 10 Years 100 Movies – Part 3
Papiro & Mint is back with the third part of the article A Decade in Film: 10 Years 100 Movies. Since 2019 marks the last year of the 2010 decade, I’ve decided to gather the […]
Louis Garrel in 10 Movies
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about a favorite actor of mine, and after talking about Alain Delon and Isabelle Huppert on Papiro & Mint, I’ve decided to gather ten titles featuring the […]
A Decade in Film: 10 Years 100 Movies – Part 2
Papiro & Mint is back with the second part of the article A Decade in Film: 10 Years 100 Movies. Since 2019 marks the last year of the 2010 decade, I’ve decided to gather the […]
At Eternity’s Gate and the Cinema of Painters
There has been some talk that filmmakers tend to fail when it comes to portraying the lives of great painters. Turner, Pollock, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, Goya, Munch, you name it. They all have been […]
Climax and Other Similar Musicals
Screened at the Director’s Fortnight at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Climax is Gaspar Noé’s latest film – a controversial love-or-hate director who gave us an incredible body of work formed by films such as […]
