Riding the Goddamn Elephant
March 9, 2023
You're all going to hell.
A. S. Hamrah
A. S. Hamrah’s work has appeared in a number of publications, including n+1, Bookforum, and Harper’s. A collection of his work, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002–2018 (n+1 Books), was called “essential reading” by The Nation and “form-bending, disobedient” by New York magazine.
Cinema Is Never on Time
September 6, 2022
On the late film critic Serge Daney.
The World Was Just an Address
March 24, 2022
The Oscars are the abandoned auto show of the movie industry.
Time Is a Rabid Dog
January 13, 2022
Pandemic cinema at the end of year two.
In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing
April 22, 2021
ANOTHER ROUND
If you can accept Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed high school history teacher in the suburbs, maybe you will also believe that his beautiful doctor wife (Maria Bonnevie) would take him back after he makes drinking on the job the guiding principle of his life. Thomas ...
You Are Not Familiar with My Voice
April 7, 2021
John Gianvito on Helen Keller and his new film, Her Socialist Smile.
Coup d’Etats and Cartoons
Many documentaries that look interesting nonetheless often seem skippable to me when they’re playing in theaters. The ones I want to see I tell myself I’ll catch up with at home. I almost never do. It’s enough for me to know there’s a documentary out there about weird ...
New Centuries Are Rare
Confronted with the thought that I would have to watch the Andy Samberg comedy Palm Springs on Hulu because it was getting so much attention while movie theaters are closed, I gave up. I didn’t want to subscribe to another channel to see this Groundhog Day retread, even if it ...