Tagged: movies
Interview: Nick Corirossi, The Guy Who Made The Original “No New Friends” Video
Earlier this spring, a friend sent me the link to miami1996.com in an otherwise blank email. The site, stylized to be some relic of an internet long gone, plays host to the above short film, … read more »
No Concessions: Olivier Assayas and the Art of Teenagehood
It’s no simple feat pegging down Olivier Assayas because the French director works between genres, and rarely makes the same sort of film twice. Look at his oeuvre of the last decade: 2004’s Clean, in … read more »
Our Father: Life in the Source Family
Isis Aquarian remembers life in the Source Family. When she was in her late twenties, Charlene Peters grew her hair long, changed her name to Isis Aquarian and moved in with the Source Family, a … read more »
Spring Breakers Costume Designer Heidi Bivens Explains How to Style a Harmony Korine Movie
A year ago, Riff Raff claimed that James Franco would be playing him in a movie. He was talking about Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, and his boast proved to be partially true, at least to … read more »
Interview: Christian Mungiu, Director of Beyond the Hills
For anyone familiar with Cristian Mungiu’s film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, the Romanian director’s current feature, Beyond the Hills, will echo like a déjà vu. Again we find two female best friends, … read more »
What in the World is Holy Motors About?
French cinema doesn’t get much weirder than Leos Carax’s Holy Motors. To give you an idea, the film opens with the 51-year-old director waking up in the night, sprouting a drill from his middle finger, … read more »
Three New Movies About Music Open This Week
…And only one of them is a biopic! Not sure about the subhead for Joann Sfar’s Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, kinda makes him sound like he battled valiantly on the beach at Normandy, but … read more »
Tupac Sells Screenplay From Beyond The Grave
Tupac Shakur’s first and only screenplay, which he either penned while serving a prison sentence in 1995—or while relaxing beach-side at a Cuban villa in 2004—has just been acquired for production by a nearly un-googleable … read more »
A Movie That Will Make You Feel Weird is Playing Tonight in Brooklyn
Brock Enright is an artist. In 2007, he took a trip to California with his girlfriend Kirsten so that he could make a film for his first gallery solo show. In a short, incomplete list, … read more »
Who is Jill Scott? (10 Years Later)
After the Y2K fluke, we shrugged our shoulders (pre-Kanye shrug) at the mysterious tech hoax. There were questions we just didn’t have the answers to, and in music this one also stumped us: “Who Is … read more »
