Champions of unsung and underrated cinema Essays & Notes From the Back Row podcast by Veronica, Jenna @agreeablecar, Carlo @carlogocarlo & Dan @yckmd_
Joined February 2017
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NEW- @mubi’s The History of Sound draws a clear parallel between love and the power of music. Even after the partnership is severed, love does not disappear – like a song, it repeats and reverberates inside of you, long after the record has stopped. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/11/17…
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My h-o-t-t-o-g-o hot takes of 2024, a month late as always. Including many foriegn and woman directed films, and a rant about all the bad faith criticism of Megalopolis. Enjoy
Jenna’s top ten features a whole lot of foreign releases and female directed films – including those about the ancient past, dystopian and utopian futures, satanic temptations and howling good times. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/9/j…
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NEW- Veronica’s top twelve new-to-her watches include dopplegangers, sandworms, traveling through the abyss and Channing Tatum being a creep. Read: back-row.com/home/2025/1/22/…
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I expanded my thoughts into an article for @BackRowCineBlog: back-row.com/home/2025/1/17/…
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I’ve always loved David Lynch’s brand of humor & joy, that radiated through everything he did including his most upsetting scenes. Leaning into those unsettling contradictions, those giant question marks in the sky — the more ridiculous, the more terrifying they were.
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Best new to me watches of December:
The Big Racket (1976)
Under Fire (1983)
Saturday Night (2024)
Nickel Boys (2024)
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Veronica and I are back from the dead, talking about The Substance on Back Row! Listen as we discuss its merits, its flaws, our deepest bodily insecurities and our skincare regimes.
NEW- Jenna and Veronica defy the haters and sign up for a weekly dose of The Substance (2024) – listen as they pick apart the strengths and weaknesses of the movie and themselves. Listen: buff.ly/3Z7w9e0
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Just found this great primer for Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis movies on @mubinotebook that, besides being well written, quotes me alongside Andrew Sarris, Godard and Orson Welles. No notes 😌😉 mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/n…
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Resurfacing my @BackRowCineBlog ode to Alien Covenant, an underrated movie I’m glad to see people are reconsidering. Also proud to have gotten a reference to the Euthanasia Coaster in this review — a concept I think about more often than is healthy. back-row.com/home/2017/6/16/…
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WELL it apparently took me a year to write this (80% in 2023 & the rest this weekend) because my (real) job’s been busy AF. But PS I loved Asteroid City and felt the need to write about the film cause it deserves a satisfactory explanation. Also I drew Matt Dillon. Enjoy
NEW- If we peel back all of the layers of Asteroid City we discover the paradox of the director – how to truthfully portray the chaos of the world while working within film, a medium that itself calls for tight control and planning at every step. Read: buff.ly/3S1uWAW
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Woo hoo, 2000 Letterboxd followers! Thanks folks! This is still the sweet spot when Likes feel nice and I only get “fuck you dipshit” comments like once a week.
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Completely lost track of time! Best new to me watches of May:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
You, The Living (2007)
The Master and Margarita (2024)
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I was thrilled to be a guest on @amycatherinek’s great podcast! Listen to why I love movies about horrible men, especially when they’re made by female filmmakers. Watch our conversation on Lina Wertmuller’s Seven Beauties and Jane Campion’s In The Cut: youtu.be/JEnujuVTP10
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This was an underrated little movie. Wrote a review back in the day: back-row.com/home/2017/4/23/…
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a great, harrowing movie! hard to watch. but very very good
NEW- I Watched It So You Don't Have To is back with Alan Clarke's Scum, a fantastic & harrowing film about England’s Borstal youth detention center. We encourage you to watch, but here's the lowdown on what to expect if you're worried it will be too much: buff.ly/3ULsss5
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Finally dusting off @BackRowCineBlog to talk about Scum, a movie about how these prison systems benefit from society’s ability to look the other way when the truth becomes too uncomfortable to witness. HIGHLY recommended but oof... it made me feel physically ill by the end.
NEW- I Watched It So You Don't Have To is back with Alan Clarke's Scum, a fantastic & harrowing film about England’s Borstal youth detention center. We encourage you to watch, but here's the lowdown on what to expect if you're worried it will be too much: buff.ly/3ULsss5
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Saw Tommy on Broadway (it’s fun!), but they made some changes that I thought kind of undermined the story. Which made me think of how much I enjoy Ken Russell’s wild film so here’s an essay I wrote a few years ago (with some of my own Daltry art!): back-row.com/home/2017/2/13/…
