Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Not every filmmaker can emulate Alfred Hitchcock and cue Chet Baker in a feature debut shot on a shoestring budget […]
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Art and Film: Surviving the Oscars
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Martin Scorsese directed what was probably the best American movie of the year — The Irishman— and it garnered not […]
Art and Film: 2019 Top Ten
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It’s been a fine year for movies, their demise due to streaming having been greatly exaggerated notwithstanding awkward episodes like […]
Art and Film: Rogue plant
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The political ascent of Donald Trump and others like him has produced a glut of ominous allegories, and Austrian director […]
Art and Film: Merchants of nostalgia
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / If bad times increase the demand for nostalgia, the current bull market is going to persist for at least another […]
Art and Film: Joker is the wrong movie
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Joker, Todd Phillips’ tensely anticipated origin story of the Batman villain that grossed $96 million in its first weekend, self-consciously presents […]
Art and Film: López’s fierce children
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Mike Kelley, the late conceptual artist, famously cast stuffed animals both as children’s escape hatches from worldly nastiness and as the […]
Art and Film: Mark Asch’s New York
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Rivaled only by Los Angeles among cities celebrated in American cinema, New York deserves its own pointedly knowing and satisfyingly […]
Art and Film: Tarantino’s glorious layer cake
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s re-imagining of the Sharon Tate story, is among his best films. It is […]
Art and Film: Argentina�s haunting precedent
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Argentina�s decade-long �dirty war� (1974�83) during which a right-wing military junta �disappeared� about 30,000 left-wing dissidents � that is, executed […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank is now 94, which means he has been in the midst what he calls […]
Art and Film: Joanna Hogg’s sublime deliberation
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In the autobiographical film The Souvenir, writer-director Joanna Hogg’s fourth and latest feature and a gemlike crystallization of her seamless […]
Art and Film: Claire Denis� cosmic noir
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Claire Denis� stupefyingly smart film High Life, the first she has directed in English, starts ahead of its main events, […]
Art and Film: The lives of artists
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck�s film Never Look Away concerns a German painter named Kurt Barnert (the charismatic Tom Schilling), but […]
Art and Film: Cheapening the art world one toxic bite at a time
Contributed by Kristen Clevenson / The Price of Everything (2018), a documentary film directed by Nathaniel Kahn, seeks to assess the impact, influence, and inescapable role of […]
