Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Growing up in Portland, Oregon, John Callahan, who would become a cartoonist noted for his dark, warped humor, had been […]
Tag: film
On July 4th: The art of decency
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Leave No Trace, Debra Granik�s first dramatic movie since her Winter�s Bone ushered in Jennifer Lawrence eight years ago, is among the best and […]
Art and Film: The beautifully unlovely Nancy
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The artistic process comes up quite a bit in cinema. This month alone, three new movies feature protagonists who are […]
Report from Berlin: Ana Mendieta�s Super 8 films
Contributed by Loren Britton / Ana Mendieta�s exhibition at the Martin-Gropius- Bau is exquisite. Born in Havana, Cuba, in November 1948, Mendieta was sent to the […]
Art and Film: Paul Schrader�s risky business
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Like an opaque work of conceptual art, writer-director Paul Schrader�s First Reformed is a high-risk venture, laden with the potential for […]
Art and Film: Juliette Binoche is a painter on the prowl
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In Let the Sunshine In (an awkward translation of the original title, Un Beau Soleil Interieur), French director Claire Denis� […]
Art and Film: Giacometti�s petulant eye
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti was renowned for his inability to finish artwork. It�s tempting to caricature that kind of chronic dissatisfaction […]
Art and Film: Red scares
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Two current movies about Russia, both gloriously snide but in different ways, open with discrete artistic performances. In Armando Iannucci�s […]
Art and Film: Amy Jenkins hosts death
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / During and after the AIDS epidemic, gay artists like Carlos Alfonzo, Ross Bleckner, Robert Gober, and Keith Haring used visual […]
Art and Film: Dedicated followers of fashion
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In the brilliantly obtuse Phantom Thread, a paradoxically epic chamber piece, Paul Thomas Anderson explores the way in which romantic […]
Art & Film: Liquid asset in The Shape of Water
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Cult film auteur Guillermo del Toro, director and co-writer of the triumphant The Shape of Water, sees 1962, in which […]
Art and film: Billboard as political provocation
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / During the pre-Mad Men golden age of roadside America, advertising billboards set a tone of warm and friendly commercialism. Perhaps […]
Art and Film: Ruben Ostlund’s bloated indignation
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The art world and the bourgeoisie are taking a cinematic beating this year. Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and […]
Art and Film: Noah Baumbach’s New York state of mind
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is arguably Noah Baumbach’s best movie since The Squid and the Whale, and seems sure to […]
Art and Film: Aronofsky�s Bosch-esque mother!
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Albert Oehlen is perhaps foremost among visual artists seeking to capture the jangled frenzy of the Internet Age, having done […]
