Andrei Filote
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Andrei Filote
@letominor.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hi, I'm Andrei and my goal is to tell the truth with grace and beauty. And get paid in the process.
Here is some of my work:
Here is some of my work:
A rainbow opens our visit to the cosmically green, misty hilled Ireland of Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin. At first, Banshees seems an allegory. No. It is a post-modern detective story in which the central mystery is not the death of a friendship but the despair of one's own heart.
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A rainbow opens our visit to the cosmically green, misty hilled Ireland of Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin. At first, Banshees seems an allegory. No. It is a post-modern detective story in which the central mystery is not the death of a friendship but the despair of one's own heart.
The Intruder (2004) features Michel Subor in a very Denisian role as a former mercenary who is heart-stricken in more than one way. The color blue regains its dominance, and Gregoire Colin features in a few critical scenes as the son, in what surely must be a reference to Beau Travail.
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Intruder (2004) features Michel Subor in a very Denisian role as a former mercenary who is heart-stricken in more than one way. The color blue regains its dominance, and Gregoire Colin features in a few critical scenes as the son, in what surely must be a reference to Beau Travail.
Glass Onion: a nice fantasy but I feel as if the liberal section of the internet had already written half the jokes before Rian Johnson. Daniel Craig is really funny. The resolution feels false, the camera is meant to deliver a revelatory coup but never quite succeeds. The Hateful Five.
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Glass Onion: a nice fantasy but I feel as if the liberal section of the internet had already written half the jokes before Rian Johnson. Daniel Craig is really funny. The resolution feels false, the camera is meant to deliver a revelatory coup but never quite succeeds. The Hateful Five.
Friday Night, 2002, marks the halfway point in Claire Denis' filmography. Something about the poetry in it has hit me with so much more clarity that it's brought into focus some of the choices in her 90s work. I look forward to discovering what she's been up to in the new millennium.
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Friday Night, 2002, marks the halfway point in Claire Denis' filmography. Something about the poetry in it has hit me with so much more clarity that it's brought into focus some of the choices in her 90s work. I look forward to discovering what she's been up to in the new millennium.
Gun Crazy is the last of the noirs for now. It follows a premise so well trod that I need not describe it. But I wonder: Did the Hayes Code influence the development of these darkly ironic endings? Is the femme fatale a product of biblical misogyny in a far more religious America?
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Gun Crazy is the last of the noirs for now. It follows a premise so well trod that I need not describe it. But I wonder: Did the Hayes Code influence the development of these darkly ironic endings? Is the femme fatale a product of biblical misogyny in a far more religious America?
I watched Detour, 1945. To quote David Lynch: wowee!
Also amazing is this: male lead Tom Neal later copped an actual charge for involuntary manslaughter. Life, my dears, is strange.
I also realize that I know very little about the history of independent cinema, to which this movie belongs.
Also amazing is this: male lead Tom Neal later copped an actual charge for involuntary manslaughter. Life, my dears, is strange.
I also realize that I know very little about the history of independent cinema, to which this movie belongs.
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I watched Detour, 1945. To quote David Lynch: wowee!
Also amazing is this: male lead Tom Neal later copped an actual charge for involuntary manslaughter. Life, my dears, is strange.
I also realize that I know very little about the history of independent cinema, to which this movie belongs.
Also amazing is this: male lead Tom Neal later copped an actual charge for involuntary manslaughter. Life, my dears, is strange.
I also realize that I know very little about the history of independent cinema, to which this movie belongs.
The film community's never been shy about The Third Man's quality. But they've never been forward about its (literally) off-kilter vibe. My congratulations. Visually this film looks like the crowning glory of the hardboiled family. Tonally, it has more in common with The Big Lebowski. What a movie.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The film community's never been shy about The Third Man's quality. But they've never been forward about its (literally) off-kilter vibe. My congratulations. Visually this film looks like the crowning glory of the hardboiled family. Tonally, it has more in common with The Big Lebowski. What a movie.
I started The Seance of Blake Manor tonight and while I don't know how the mystery will resolve... Diabolik, is that you?!
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I started The Seance of Blake Manor tonight and while I don't know how the mystery will resolve... Diabolik, is that you?!
The Killers, 1946, a gorgeous noir flick adapted from Hemingway starring Burt Lancaster in his debut, and Ava Gardner in what Wikipedia informs me was her breakout role.
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Killers, 1946, a gorgeous noir flick adapted from Hemingway starring Burt Lancaster in his debut, and Ava Gardner in what Wikipedia informs me was her breakout role.
It's an unfortunate constant that videogames so often attach to a genre which they represent badly. Recently Bloodlines 2 did to noir what sunlight does to vampires, and had me flying towards relief. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett provided that and more. Great book.
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's an unfortunate constant that videogames so often attach to a genre which they represent badly. Recently Bloodlines 2 did to noir what sunlight does to vampires, and had me flying towards relief. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett provided that and more. Great book.
I watched The Naked Gun and while I laughed, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the onscreen romance between Neeson and Anderson's characters.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I watched The Naked Gun and while I laughed, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the onscreen romance between Neeson and Anderson's characters.
Watched Del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Watched Del Toro's Frankenstein.
Munich, 2005. Spielberg knows how to spin a yarn, but this movie needed something more. It doesn't feel like it comes out of the reality which it depicts, with great embellishment and gorgeous cinematography, but out of the Hollywood dream factory. It's simply built with the wrong grammar.
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Munich, 2005. Spielberg knows how to spin a yarn, but this movie needed something more. It doesn't feel like it comes out of the reality which it depicts, with great embellishment and gorgeous cinematography, but out of the Hollywood dream factory. It's simply built with the wrong grammar.
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis' 2002 erotic horror gig with Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, and regular Alex Descas. Its genre identifier is a bit bold, as, regardless of its themes, and even imagery, it felt like watching any of Denis' previous works. I think showing gore requires some bad taste.
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis' 2002 erotic horror gig with Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, and regular Alex Descas. Its genre identifier is a bit bold, as, regardless of its themes, and even imagery, it felt like watching any of Denis' previous works. I think showing gore requires some bad taste.
Demons, 1971, Toshio Matsumoto, is so classically structured it wouldn't surprise me if it was adapting something. The web makes this sound like a gory revenge flick. It is a tragedy and it does not hold back.
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Demons, 1971, Toshio Matsumoto, is so classically structured it wouldn't surprise me if it was adapting something. The web makes this sound like a gory revenge flick. It is a tragedy and it does not hold back.
Continuing Claire Denis' filmography with Nenette and Boni. Denis' depiction of sexual fantasy is so disarmingly straightforward sometimes -- because it's so real. And it's usually a key force that's rarely acknowledged in the coming of age milieu.
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Continuing Claire Denis' filmography with Nenette and Boni. Denis' depiction of sexual fantasy is so disarmingly straightforward sometimes -- because it's so real. And it's usually a key force that's rarely acknowledged in the coming of age milieu.
Finally watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which I now realize was the last of the classic Spielbergs I was missing. What can I say: class.
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Finally watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which I now realize was the last of the classic Spielbergs I was missing. What can I say: class.
I watched Lo Mao aka The Cat, a 1991 movie about a cat burglar from outer space who is also a literal cat. The creature from the Thing is also involved for some reason. Even more mysterious is the inclusion of a romance subplot involving (yawn) human characters. Good bad.
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I watched Lo Mao aka The Cat, a 1991 movie about a cat burglar from outer space who is also a literal cat. The creature from the Thing is also involved for some reason. Even more mysterious is the inclusion of a romance subplot involving (yawn) human characters. Good bad.
I've experienced all manner of imperfection in games, some of it even beneficial. But Bloodlines 2 is the first game I've played that, relative to its neighbors, appears to suffer from lobotomy. Wish I was a fly on the wall during some of those meetings.
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I've experienced all manner of imperfection in games, some of it even beneficial. But Bloodlines 2 is the first game I've played that, relative to its neighbors, appears to suffer from lobotomy. Wish I was a fly on the wall during some of those meetings.
I Can't Sleep is Claire Denis' third feature. Visually closer to the previous No Kill, No Die, splashes of blue are our constant companions. While I respect Denis' commitment to outsiders, the movie is both too unfocused and its characters so hermetic that it failed to build into anything for me.
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I Can't Sleep is Claire Denis' third feature. Visually closer to the previous No Kill, No Die, splashes of blue are our constant companions. While I respect Denis' commitment to outsiders, the movie is both too unfocused and its characters so hermetic that it failed to build into anything for me.
Cronos: The New Dawn won't be many people's darling. It has that eternal game problem: its digital actors stink and their lines are shaky and overwritten. But I still enjoyed it. Its narrow interest of being a horror game shines through in its positional play, sound and art design.
October 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cronos: The New Dawn won't be many people's darling. It has that eternal game problem: its digital actors stink and their lines are shaky and overwritten. But I still enjoyed it. Its narrow interest of being a horror game shines through in its positional play, sound and art design.
I've learned over the years that bugs and jank don't make a game boring. Some of the most boring games I've ever played are superbly polished AAA joints. The production quality isn't a boon, but an imposition. These games aren't allowed to appear less than respectable. Jank can be liberating.
October 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I've learned over the years that bugs and jank don't make a game boring. Some of the most boring games I've ever played are superbly polished AAA joints. The production quality isn't a boon, but an imposition. These games aren't allowed to appear less than respectable. Jank can be liberating.