I strongly suspect that the premise of Therapy for a Vampire originated from an idle joke: What if Freud psychoanalyzed a vampire? Maybe it’s not ‘haha’ funny, but it at least affords a muffled, erudite chuckle if you consider how — well — Freudian …Read more
When you’re offered an intimate portrait of Anthony Weiner, part of you wonders, “What more is there left to see?” Besides the literal over-exposure of the former New York congressman, the psychological profile of Weiner isn’t exactly opaque either. …Read more
The premise of The Lobster might sound like quirky fun: if you remain single for 45 days, you will be turned into an animal. But the movie is much more than its initial premise, creating an entire dystopic world with a disconcerting, but intermittent …Read more
Jane Austen has long been haunting Whit Stillman’s films. A bookish socialite during cotillion season alludes to Austen novels while making polite conversation. A Darcy-esque suitor emerges in Studio-54-era New York. Above all, Stillman’s subject, li …Read more
Punk is tragic. Its rise and fall is the definitive proof that no amount of resistance to mass culture cannot be commercialized and re-consumed. Music producer, Mark Reeder’s, documentary on the punk scene in West Berlin at the end of the century is …Read more
What should a war photographer do: take a picture of people suffering to best represent their personal pain, or turn the picture into something larger and in doing so, reduce the figures at hand and potentially misrepresent them? These are the though …Read more
In several ways, Francofonia announces itself as a companion to director Aleksandr Sokurov’s 2002 breakout feature, Russian Ark. The earlier film used the massive Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg as a setting for a fantasia of Russian history and a …Read more
Nobody likes to admit they enjoy the found-footage horror movie. After the novelty of The Blair Witch Project wore off, they’ve started to seem like nothing more than a ploy for producers to choke a couple million out of a bottom-budget project. They …Read more
