Lydia Tár is broken. Pulled from the podium, kicked out of her Berlin apartment, barred from seeing her daughter, the disgraced conductor returns to her family house on Long Island, pokes around her childhood room—perfectly preserved as if she were … Continue reading 2022: Accommodating for Others
Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. It all starts so innocently: the invitation to a sleepover. The invited wants to go, but her father won’t let her. Not in a million years. He’s the type who installed a barrel … Continue reading BONES AND ALL
For writer/director/editor Trey Edward Shults, making movies is a family affair. It doesn’t matter if he’s shooting in his parent’s home in Spring, Texas, for 2015’s Krisha, or in the neon glow of Southern Florida for his latest, Waves. “I try to … Continue reading Trey Edward Shults on WAVES
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