Brooding, dense and hypnotic, David Michôd’s feature debut, Animal Kingdom, opening Friday, enters the viewer’s bloodstream quietly, then completely, and leaves a concussive aftershock. Based loosely on real events in the crime world of Michôd’s native Melbourne, Australia, the story of one particular (fictional) thieving family unfolds in lurid detail against a throbbing thicket of [...]
Category Archives: Film
Open Air Movies
August 3, 2010 – 11:14 am
One of my absolute favorite things in New York in the summer is outdoor movies. Last summer, as you may remember, it rained every single weekend, and every Thursday as well, so I never managed to get to see any of the movies at Brooklyn Bridge Park. This summer I’ve been traveling so much I [...]
Stanley Kubrick’s Photos
June 29, 2010 – 10:06 pm
The tick of time has almost never failed to vindicate Stanley Kubrick. His films—sometimes plodding, sometimes maddening, always uncompromisingly singular—were popularly derided upon debut for their difficulty. Genius, apparently, is an acquired taste. In any case, each is now considered an indispensable pillar within one of the most celebrated and influential canons of cinematic history.
Lesser [...]
Dossier Exclusive: The Official Trailer for Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
June 28, 2010 – 5:10 pm
Watch the trailer of Tamra Davis’s new film about Basquiat, Radiant Child.
Today, only on Dossier. Opens at The Film Forum on July 21st.
The Radiant Child
June 28, 2010 – 12:13 pm
Tamra Davis’ new Basquiat documentary offers a surprising wealth of first-hand footage of the artist. Tracing his chaotic rise to wealth, fame and exploitation, the film is centered around a 1985 interview at the L’Hermitage Hotel in Los Angeles – a city to which Basquiat would retreat in order to escape the drugs and [...]
Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love
June 7, 2010 – 8:39 am
At the center of Luca Guadagnino’s rapturous I Am Love, opening June 18th, Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton burns white hot as a wife imprisoned in a world of wealth and custom. The character’s Princess is trapped in a castle turret, but the actress’s performance is a gem set in an elegant and timeless brooch. Guadagnino’s narrative [...]
Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010
May 29, 2010 – 7:06 pm
Dennis Hopper was a giant. Throughout his life he kept company with the legends of the art world from Warhol and Schnabel to Ed Ruscha, and his own work is scheduled to be the subject of curator Jeffrey Deitch’s debut show at MOCA. As a film director Hopper was the crest on the American New [...]
Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
April 28, 2010 – 9:42 am
Tamra Davis’ documentary The Radiant Child is an intimate look into the destiny of the great artist Jean Michel Basquiat. Twenty years following his death, Davis has released previously unseen interview footage she filmed with her friend in 1983. He was at the height of his fame but only two years shy of death (by [...]
The Newspaper Series
April 27, 2010 – 10:39 am
Last weekend, I finally made it to The Newspaper Series at Film Forum. I highly recommend it to anyone who feels nostalgic for a time when a newspaperman was newspaperman and print was the main currency – or to anyone who simply enjoys a double feature on a rainy afternoon. I saw Nothing Sacred and [...]
Satisfaction: Consumption Art in Poland, 1973-1979
April 22, 2010 – 4:55 pm
This Tuesday, Light Industry presents Satisfaction: Consumption Art in Poland, 1973-1979
curated by £ukasz Ronduda. I don’t know much about art in Poland in the 70’s but the press release says that the pop aesthetics were the reaction of a consumer identity in a communist state. I just like the picture of the woman eating a [...]
