Tag: film

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So Metaphorical

John Semley

October 24, 2019

Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes (in a reportedly unanimous decision) and was (less unanimously) a finalist for the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, begins in a dead-end. The film opens in a dingy sub-basement at the ass-end of a ...

An Evil Medium

Elizabeth Horkley

October 11, 2019

Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother, fifty years on.

Corrupted Headspace

John Semley

October 07, 2019

Joker and the vacuity of influence

Trivial Pursuits

Marlowe Granados

August 30, 2019

From Ann Harding to Kay Francis—the romantic politics of the adventuress.

Whither the Newsman?

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

August 22, 2019

A new documentary about 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace obscures more than it reveals.

The Sky in Upside-Down Land

Niela Orr

August 21, 2019

In The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Bandana, black men hold fast to territory they’ve been told they should abandon.

Let Us Compare Mythologies

John Semley

August 19, 2019

The pathos of Tarantino’s historical interventions.

The Fleshly Frontier

John Semley

August 02, 2019

High Life embraces the beauty, terror, and shit of material existence.

Private Fears in Public Places

Lida Maxwell

July 16, 2019

XY Chelsea veers between two narratives about Manning’s acts without deciding between them.

Children of the Wicker Man

Edward Millar,  John Semley

July 15, 2019

Roughly half a century after it first emerged, folk horror is back.

This Is Us

Stephen Kearse

April 05, 2019

In Us, Jordan Peele’s evokes a long history of American violence—without naming its victims and beneficiaries.

Night at the Museum

Amber A’Lee Frost

March 20, 2019

I got screaming drunk at the KGB Spy Museum the other night. . . .