Asteroid City
Wes Anderson continues to explore the synthesis between high camp visuals and dead pan existentialism with a flare for miniature photography and jukebox scores in the science fiction film Asteroid… Read more »
Tag: Willem Dafoe
Fantastic Mr. Fox
From Bottle Rocket (1996) to The Darjeeling Limited (2007), filmmaker Wes Anderson was moving his aesthetic closer and closer to animation. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is the first time that… Read more »
The Northman
With his film The Northman (2022), filmmaker Robert Eggers returns to the folkloric roots of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Eggers revels in the physical hardships and bloody violence of the ninth… Read more »
Siberia
With Siberia (2020) renegade auteur Abel Ferrara returns too familiar ground. The director continues to obsess over the means by which regret and guilt can fracture the human spirit. Clint… Read more »
Pasolini
Here are those times recreatedby the brutal force of sun-drenched images:the light of live tragedy. -from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem Tears Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini (2014) could be about any filmmaker… Read more »
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s been years since Wes Anderson transcended the cult status of his earlier films. Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) offered a highly stylized, if not completely unreal, suggestion of what was… Read more »
Streets Of Fire
Walter Hill has said that every film he’s made has been a western. I find it hard to argue with him on that score. Each film Hill has made carries… Read more »
Basquiat
Recently I received as a gift ANDY WARHOL Polaroids 1958-1987, published by Taschen. It is a marvelous presentation of Warhol’s work, quite fascinating when one begins to compare these original… Read more »
