CineMalin: Film Commentary and Criticism

Exclusive Interviews, Reviews, Essays, and Miscellanea from Sean Malin

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • About Me
  • Interviews
    • Filmmakers
    • Stars
  • Reviews
    • Videos
    • Articles
  • Travel
  • Essays

Category Archives: Essays

Your Top 10 List Makes Me Want to Puke

December 29, 2017by Sean L. Malin Leave a comment

It wouldn’t be awards season if the leading voices of Film Twitter – and TV Twitter, Book Twitter, Podcast Twitter, and Food Twitter – weren’t aflutter about the “best” and […]

Read Article →
Essays, Top 10, Writers

Brimstone & Glory (2017) Film Review

November 17, 2017by Sean L. Malin Leave a comment

Directed by: Viktor Jakovleski Produced by: Dan Janvey, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Kellen Quinn, Affonso Gonçalves, Benh Zeitlin, Casey Coleman, Antonio “Tonitzin” Gomez, Viktor Jakovleski, Erdem Karaham Executive Produced by: Lisa […]

Read Article →
Criticism, Documentary, Essays, Experimental Cinema, Film, Travel

SFIFF60: Jem Cohen’s “World Without End (No Reported Incidents)” is a Coldly Handsome Abstraction

April 27, 2017by Sean L. Malin Leave a comment

Directed, Written, Cinematography, and Edited by: Jem Cohen Produced by: Gravity Hill, Estuary 2016, METAL Executive Produced by: Gareth Evans Official Selection of the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival […]

Read Article →
Criticism, Documentary, Essays, Experimental Cinema, Film

Бетмен Rises: Almost Holy, the Completist Ethic, and the Mythos of Terrence Malick

June 2, 2016by Sean L. Malin 3 Comments

Almost Holy [2016] Directed, Written, and Edited by: Steve Hoover Featuring: Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko Produced by: Danny Yourd Executive Produced by: Kathy Dziubek, Nicolas Gonda, Michael Killen, Jim Kreitzburg, Terrence […]

Read Article →
Essays, Film, Horror, Travel

“Jam Session: Notes on Music Biography” – Desert of the Real #2

April 1, 2016by Ben Altenberg 1 Comment

The cinematic music biography always finds itself in high demand. It is hard to think of a documentary subject that could be more commercially reliable (outside of its cousin, the […]

Read Article →
Criticism, Documentary, Essays, Music

“Border Logic: Four Windows into the Mexican Drug War” – Desert of the Real #1

March 2, 2016by Sean L. Malin 1 Comment

Ed. Note: This is the introductory piece in a nascent essay column, Desert of the Real, by Ben Altenberg. Like it? Hate it? Reach out to the author through the […]

Read Article →
Criticism, Documentary, Essays, Film, Writers

Shepard & Dark (2012) Film Review

October 25, 2013by Sean L. Malin Leave a comment

What: Film Review Directed by: Treva Wurmfeld Produced by: Amy Hobby Edited by: Sandra Adair Featuring: Sam Shepard, Johnny Dark Running Time (in min.): 92 minutes Language: English Rating: Not […]

Read Article →
Articles, Criticism, Essays, Film, Reviews

Post navigation

1 2 3 Next →
  • Contact and Donate

Find what you’re looking for

Sean’s Twitter Feed

  • Guess he took my advice. twitter.com/cinemalins/sta… 1 hour ago
  • RT @cinemalins: .@realDonaldTrump if you need something to read on the toilet twitter.com/LAmag/status/1… 1 hour ago
Follow @cinemalins

All My Posts in One Cool Place

December 2019
M T W T F S S
« Apr    
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  

Care for a look into the past?

Coverage

Academy Awards Austin Cinema CineMalin CineMalin Film Commentary and Criticism Comedy Documentary Documentary Film Drama Film Film Criticism Film Festival Film Festivals Filmmaker Film Review Horror Independent Film Indie Film Music San Francisco San Francisco Film Society Sean L. Malin Sean Malin SFFS Sundance Sundance 2013 Sundance Film Festival SXSW TriBeCa Tribeca Film Festival

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
CineMalin: Film Commentary and Criticism
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel