Tag Archives: Sean Baker

Busan International Film Festival 2025, Sept. 22, part 2

Posted on September 22, 2025 by philipbrasor

As usual, I retreated earlier than usual on my last day of the festival. I leave tomorrow morning very, very early, and I’m hoping the subway gets me to the airport on time. The first train is 5:21 am, and … Continue reading →

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Review: Anora

Posted on February 28, 2025 by philipbrasor

What’s refreshing about Sean Baker’s movies isn’t so much their realistic take on the lives of sex workers and others who survive outside of what could be called polite society, but rather how those characters’ status informs their outlook in … Continue reading →

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Review: Red Rocket

Posted on April 20, 2023 by philipbrasor

It was obviously going to be a tall order for director Sean Baker to top or even equal his last film, The Florida Project, an epic exploration of 21st century survivalist poverty in the capitalist milieu represented by the titular … Continue reading →

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Movies April 2018

Posted on April 2, 2018 by philipbrasor

Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the April issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo last weekend (a little later than normal due to a printing error). Black Panther By now it’s difficult to separate the … Continue reading →

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