I’d like to see this narrative feature as a gallery installation: the landscape of Northern Maine which the filmmakers capture is full of the small sounds of summer life, the sturdy grey rocks of the […]
Tag: 2015
Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson and The California Dream
While Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, Inherent Vice, was based on a novel by Pynchon, what it really reminded me of was Didion: “California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of […]
SF 2015 Indie Fest: Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
This year’s San Francisco IndieFest celebrates its thoroughly eccentric roots with the closing night film Jacky in the Kingdom of Women, an exuberant, crude, uncomfortably funny, very French and extremely political satire about the role […]
2015 SF Indie Film Fest: O Apostolo
Contemporary filmmaking and medieval aesthetics are paired wonderfully in this stop-motion animation film about faith, the Church, redemption, and debt payback. The setting is the famed and merciless pilgrims’ way of Santiago de Compostela, where […]
Beyond Clueless and the 90s Teen Movie
Charlie Lyne’s Beyond Clueless is a veritable catalogue raisonné of what might be called the Second Golden Age of American Teen CInema (the First, of course, being in the 1980s): Clueless, Mean Girls, American Pie, […]
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