There’s plenty of cultural baggage in Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness, the latest from the Swedish filmmaker, not to mention stasis. Andersson is the king of static shot tableau filmmaking, and About Endlessness comprises 32 immobile shots, most of them non sequiturs of varying … Continue reading ABOUT ENDLESSNESS
In 1989, scientists recorded a whale singing at 52 hertz—the average is 20Hz—and deduced that the whale was alone (no other whale was responding at that frequency) and was either the last or the first of his kind. Dubbed 52, … Continue reading THE LONELIEST WHALE: THE SEARCH FOR 52
Tucker (Stanley Tucci) is an accomplished novelist, and as his ability to recall words goes, so goes his identity. Writer/director Harry Macqueen beautifully illustrates this descent when Sam (Colin Firth) discovers a notebook containing Tucker’s next novel. As Sam flips … Continue reading SUPERNOVA
Set among the streets, parks, and apartments of Harlem, 17-year-old Ayanna (Zora Howard, who co-wrote the movie with director Rashaad Ernest Green) has hopes and dreams. But they all hit a sizeable bump in the road when she meets and … Continue reading PREMATURE
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, from Jed Rothstein, covering the rapid rise and fall of Adam Neumann, an Israeli entrepreneur who lived in a variety of countries before settling in New York City at … Continue reading WEWORK: OR THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF A $47 BILLION UNICORN
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Within Our Gates (screening for free on Kino Now in honor of Black History Month) and Nomadland, available now in select theaters and on … Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Another Round, The Changin’ Times of Ike White (both at IFS’ virtual theater), 76 Days (at IFS and Denver Film‘s virtual theater), and Totally … Continue reading
She lives in Astoria, but she works in the City. That means the company car picks her up long before the sun has a chance to crack the horizon. And like most administration assistants, she’s the first in, last out, … Continue reading THE ASSISTANT
In the wasteland that is 2020 cinematic releases, Netflix holds some hope. On Sept. 4, they’ll release I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the latest from writer/director/misanthrope Charlie Kaufman. We’ll talk more on Kaufman in a month, but today we turn … Continue reading WILD ROSE
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