Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Martin Scorsese directed what was probably the best American movie of the year — The Irishman— and it garnered not […]
Tag: film
Art and Film: 2019 Top Ten
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It’s been a fine year for movies, their demise due to streaming having been greatly exaggerated notwithstanding awkward episodes like […]
Art and Film: Merchants of nostalgia
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / If bad times increase the demand for nostalgia, the current bull market is going to persist for at least another […]
Art and Film: Mark Asch’s New York
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Rivaled only by Los Angeles among cities celebrated in American cinema, New York deserves its own pointedly knowing and satisfyingly […]
Art and Film: Tarantino’s glorious layer cake
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s re-imagining of the Sharon Tate story, is among his best films. It is […]
Art and Film: Argentina�s haunting precedent
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Argentina�s decade-long �dirty war� (1974�83) during which a right-wing military junta �disappeared� about 30,000 left-wing dissidents � that is, executed […]
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank is now 94, which means he has been in the midst what he calls […]
Art and Film: Joanna Hogg’s sublime deliberation
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In the autobiographical film The Souvenir, writer-director Joanna Hogg’s fourth and latest feature and a gemlike crystallization of her seamless […]
Gestures of grace: Carol Saft at Lesley Heller
Contributed by Julia Couzens / Carol Saft�s plainspoken exhibition, “Fallen Men,“ in the project space at Lesley Heller, is a suite of small-scaled, wall-based bronze figures engaged […]
Art and Film: The lives of artists
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck�s film Never Look Away concerns a German painter named Kurt Barnert (the charismatic Tom Schilling), but […]
Art and Film: Cheapening the art world one toxic bite at a time
Contributed by Kristen Clevenson / The Price of Everything (2018), a documentary film directed by Nathaniel Kahn, seeks to assess the impact, influence, and inescapable role of […]
Yes, Julian Schnabel painted the Van Goghs
Contributed by Sharon Butler / While watching At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel’s new film about Vincent Van Gogh, I wondered if Schnabel had made the […]
Art and Film: Van Gogh’s sanity
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “One man’s insanity is another man’s genius,” Joyce Carol Oates has written. In the popular imagination, though, Vincent Van Gogh […]
Art and Film: Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Trump�s reactionary public policy, which has institutionalized contempt for the advances in social justice forged in the United States over the […]
Art and Film: Meta�s meta in Madeline�s Madeline
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Writer-director Josephine Decker�s remarkably ambitious avant-garde film Madeline�s Madeline drills towards the molten core of the creative process and its […]
