Mattie Lucas

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Film critic at From the Front Row, staff writer for In Review Online. Member - SEFCA, NCFCA, GALECA, OFCS.

Favorite films

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Ménilmontant
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Gosford Park

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  • The Beyond

  • The Bride!

  • Greenland 2: Migration

    ★★

  • Jackass 3D

    ★★★★

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Blue Heron
★★★★½ Liked Watched

Watching Sophy Romvari’s barn-burning debut feature, Blue Heron, can be a disorienting experience. It often feels like we’re watching someone else’s memories unfold, missing key context that could make it all click. But then somewhere along the way it all falls into place – that’s the whole point.

Blue Heron is, above all else, a treatise on memory; a hazy tour through inchoate recollections of childhood about a documentary filmmaker attempting to make sense of a family tragedy through her…

Crossroads
★★½ Watched

10/10 for "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman," 2/10 for everything else.

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I Saw the TV Glow
★★★★★ Liked Watched

Jane Schoenbrun's I SAW THE TV GLOW is ostensibly a film about the bonds created by the communal act of watching favorite TV shows. These are the kinds of deeply personal cult hits that feel as though they're made just for you; like a secret shared amongst friends that not only defines you but gives you an identity as a member of an exclusive club in which minutiae and trivia become a kind of language only the initiated can understand.…

Manhatta
★★★★½ Watched

Two photographers, Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, set out to make a document of Manhattan in 1920, set to the poem "Manhatta" by Walt Whitman. The result is one of the earliest surviving works of American avant-garde cinema. And while it doesn't really experiment or push the boundaries of the medium beyond early silent documentaries the way later films would, it captures the city in an indelible way. It's fascinating from a historical perspective watching the Cunard liner, Aquitania, docking…