Red Moon Tide is streaming on Mubi.
Located on Galiciaâs northwest seaboard, Costa da Morte is a craggy stretch of land where the earth meets the Atlantic in a biblical display of crashing waves and jutting rock formations. Named for the many shipwrecks that have occurred along its shore, Costa da Morte lent its name, mythology and magnificent vistas to experimental filmmaker Lois Patiñoâs 2013 feature Coast of Death, the Spanish artistâs first feature-length work following a number of shorts that dealt with landscape and the anthropological forces that pit humanity against the natural world.
Red Moon Tide, Patiñoâs long-awaited follow-up, finds the filmmaker returning to the same location for a more sustained exploration of not only the porous boundaries between fact and folklore, the living and the dead, but also how myth-making has transformed the language and imagination of the Galician people.Â
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During a fight with his girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn), hairdresser George (Warren Beatty) pleads with her to understand: âIâm trying to get things moving.â She screams, âYou never stop moving! You never go anywhere!â
Itâs a devastatingly truthful remark, skewering the go-go-go energy of Shampoo (1975), a Los Angeles-set sex farce in which the undercurrents of melancholy and cynicism have the power of a sucker punch â one that hits home on both a personal and national level. âThe subject of Shampoo is hypocrisy,â Beatty has said, âthe commingling of sexual hypocrisy and political hypocrisy.â
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Encompassing shorts and features, photography and documentary, Khalik Allahâs work in the last decade has displayed a notable consistency of subject matter and approach, along with a tendency towards expansion and experiment. Focusing on the homeless, addicts and others hanging out around the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, Allahâs shorts, including Urban Rashomon (2013), and his doc feature Field Niggas (2015) suggest street photography brought to vibrant cinematic life through an edgy but lyrical style.