Mario Naves

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I am an artist, critic, teacher and avid movie buff. Currently, I write about film for "The New York Sun."

New York City
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  • Underworld Beauty
  • The Prowler
  • Piccadilly
  • Gilda

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  • Endless Summer Syndrome

    ★★★★½

  • Sky Peals

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  • White Christmas

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  • The Suspect

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  • Endless Summer Syndrome

    Endless Summer Syndrome 2023

    ★★★★½ Watched 13 Dec 2024

    "Kaveh Daneshmand's debut feature, ‘Endless Summer Syndrome,’ wouldn’t pass muster with Iranian authorities, and given its provocations — about family, parenthood, love, and betrayal — it’s a wonder anyone let him get away with it."

    The full review can be found at "The New York Sun": www.nysun.com/article/an-iranian-working-in-the-czech-republic-kaveh-daneshmand-has-crafted-a-film-of-uncommon-assurance-and-unnerving-portent

  • Sky Peals

    Sky Peals 2023

    ★★★½ Watched 12 Dec 2024

    "What is a filmmaker to do with a character who is preternaturally withholding even as the story is, at its core, a study of those stifled emotions? It is, admittedly, a tough narrative row to hoe."

    The full review can be found at "The New York Sun": www.nysun.com/article/despite-the-frustrations-of-moin-husseins-sky-peals-the-director-appears-worth-watching

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  • The Pale Blue Eye

    The Pale Blue Eye 2022

    ★★ Watched 02 Jan 2023

    Atmosphere, this movie has plenty of; sparkling cinematography, as well. And the actors? Top flight. But this story of murder, mutilation and the military has not an iota of suspense, an abundance of plot holes and an ending that is overly talky when it's not utterly ridiculous. And why poor Edgar Allan Poe was roped into the plot is a gimmick hardly worth mooting. Postmodernist caprice--we can live without it.

  • The Night of the Hunter

    The Night of the Hunter 1955

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Jan 2022 2

    An audacious debut by actor-turned-director Charles Laughton, "The Night of the Hunter" is a bizarre amalgamation of fairy tale, monster movie, black comedy, and tract on both the excesses and kindnesses of religiosity. Audiences didn't flock to the thing, and is it any wonder why? Laughton's film is forever shifting its ground underneath our feet, juxtaposing bucolic scenes of country living with a nightmarish symbolism that would be heavy-handed if it weren't so adroitly handled. Despondent over the film's financial failure and critical drubbing, Laughton never directed again. What's left is a one-of-a-kind masterstroke.

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