One of the more fascinating aspects of the movies is their ability to reach across time and space and continue cinematic conversations that started long ago. Take 1971’s The French Connection. Directed by one of the decade’s hottest directors, William Friedkin, The French … Continue reading THE [FRENCH] CONNECTION
As the Confucian proverb goes: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” Unfortunately for Stephanie Patrick (Blake Lively), she’s going to need more than two to get through this. Three years ago, her family was killed … Continue reading THE RHYTHM SECTION
If everything goes according to plan, the moving picture industry will convene on March 27 at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater to celebrate the best in the cinema for the 94th Academy Awards. Yes, it’s the time of the year when some … Continue reading The 94th Academy Award Nominations
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Deep Water, now playing on Hulu, The Last Waltz, which will be on 4KUHD/Blu-ray on March 29 from The Criterion Collection, and—if you click … Continue reading
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
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