It’s Arrested Development: How ‘High Fidelity’ Has Endured Beyond Its...
It’s easy to forget now that at the beginning of 2020, before the pandemic had taken hold of our consciousness, for a brief moment, High Fidelity was back. Not only did Nick Hornby’s debut novel and...
View ArticleThe Exterminating Angel: On the Wrongness and Righteousness of Abel Ferrara’s...
The most famous shot in Woody Allen’s Manhattan was photographed in the early light near the Queensboro Bridge, with Allen and Diane Keaton sitting on a bench in Sutton Place Park at East 58th Street....
View ArticleChristopher Nolan: The Man Who Wasn’t There by Daniel Carlson
1.So, we’ll start with the fact that all movies are make-believe. It’s a bunch of actors on a set, wearing costumes and standing with props picked out by hordes of people you’ll never see, under the...
View Article‘America’s Not a Country, It’s Just a Business’: On Andrew Dominik’s ‘Killing...
“Shitsville.” That’s the name Killing Them Softly director Andrew Dominik gave to the film’s nameless town, in which low-level criminals, ambitious mid-tier gangsters, nihilistic assassins, and the...
View ArticleThis is Serious Business You're Fucking with Here: The Films of William...
The way things currently stand, it’s probably safe to say that William Friedkin has retired. Not that there isn’t still a market for his brand of hilarious, opinionated coarseness—as two recent...
View ArticleIsn’t Everything Autobiographical?: Ethan Hawke In Nine Films And A Novel by...
When asked during his first ever on-camera interview if he’d like to continue acting, a young Ethan Hawke replied, “I don’t know if it’s going to be there, but I’d like to do it.” He then gives a...
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