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WORLDS COLLIDE in Anita Thacher’s radiant Anteroom. The 1982 installation has
been exactingly re-created at Microscope Gallery, using all but obsolete analog
technology, specifically two slide projectors synced by a Tascam that uses audio
tape to queue the slides changes. I’m beginning with the tech…
over 6 years ago
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OPENING WITH the explosion of a champagne cork that unleashes a chain reaction
of casual domestic violence mixed with drunken laughter, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder’s Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day)—a
five-episode series made in 1972 for Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the largest of G…
about 6 years ago
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Skating the Edge Given that the element of surprise has been preempted by six months of advance word of mouth, critical controversy, cover stories in...
over 3 years ago
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over 3 years ago
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LEOS CARAX’S ANNETTE IS A MONSTER, a misery, an astoundingly raw movie/musical
theater hybrid. It was the first film I saw in a screening room after fourteen
months of pandemic isolation so circumstances may have played a part in my being
so bouleversé. Also, I was sitting in the first row, the scre…
over 2 years ago
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BEST KNOWN as a graphic novelist—Bottomless Belly Button (2008); Body World
(2010), New School (2013); Cosplayers (2014)—Dash Shaw has also made two
animated feature films. The first was My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
(2014), an outsider’s vision of teenage angst which employs Titanic as…
over 2 years ago
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EVEN WITH the New York Film Festival kicking off tonight with Joel Coen’s The
Tragedy of Macbeth, I thought I had had enough of festivals, at least until
2022. Wild horses could not have dragged me to see Frances McDormand, whose
every performance is more forced than the last, assay Lady M, although…
over 2 years ago
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WE’RE IN A JUKE JOINT on a boardwalk overlooking the gulf, now transformed into
a sea of magma. The 45s are warped, the turntable spins erratically. We sit on
metal chairs and watch the waves of blackness. This is how the world ends—for
me, and maybe for you.Arthur Jafa’s AGHDRA, an eighty-five-minu…
over 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
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FOR TWO DECADES, the Tribeca Film Festival has preserved more than a trace of
its improvisational origins. Conceived in 2002 as a response to flagging
creative energy and property values in zip codes 10007 and 10013 in the
aftermath of 9/11, the festival projected an image of New York as a filmmakin…
over 1 year ago
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AN UTTERLY AMAZING and necessary series, “New York, 1962–1964: Underground and
Experimental Cinema,” curated by Thomas Beard and Dan Sullivan at New York’s
Film at Lincoln Center, comprises ten programs of movies—short ones, long ones,
and ones in between—all made by filmmakers living and working in…
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago