Born and raised in New York, Jeffrey Lewis leads a double-life, as both an illustrator and a singer songwriter. Both his music and comics are permeated by earnest storytelling and often self-depreciating confessions of his many adventures in the world, from heartbreaks to homeless nights on tour. In his self-published comic book series “Fuff” he [...]
Category Archives: Film
Roommates
March 25, 2012 – 12:33 pm
A portrait of a frenetic Christopher Walken takes over both the psychic and physical space on the second floor of the old Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. The actor appears contemplative, his life experience revealed through lines on his face rendered in a volcano of warm reds, yellows and oranges; his facial hair [...]
Artsy Fartsy
March 9, 2012 – 2:27 pm
Each year when The Armory Show comes to town, I feel like more and more things happen surrounding it. This year is particularly interesting as everyone anticipates the Frieze Fair taking over Randall’s Island in May. Will it be bigger, better and more interesting than the Armory? Probably. Will more things happen surrounding it? I’d [...]
Puppy Løve
February 28, 2012 – 6:00 am
In person, Mia Hansen-Løve’s face still carries the same waxy alien clarity it held on screen thirteen years ago in Olivier Assayas’ Late August, Early September, the movie the one-time actress credits with launching her directing career. Seventeen in the film, she played the adolescent girlfriend of a middle-aged novelist, her satiny innocence in stark [...]
The Pass It On Project
February 3, 2012 – 7:48 pm
The Pass It On Project is a documentary film by Melissa Nicolardi and Kalim Armstrong about education, race, and the relevance of the Civil Rights movement in America today. A three-year labor of love, it is finally being screened this weekend through Filmwax. There will also be a Q&A with the featured students, teachers, and filmmakers. [...]
Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin
January 2, 2012 – 11:38 am
Tintin is a god to me. Surely this imaginary globetrotter seems real to most of us. He is also the most beloved of all comic-book heros worldwide – except in America, where he is inevitably confused with the dog, Rin Tin Tin - as well as the first literary boho “backpacker.” Too, Tintin’s second book, Tintin [...]
Matt Wolf’s Teenage
December 2, 2011 – 2:29 pm
Psychologist Erik Erikson once noted, “It is human to have a long childhood; it is civilized to have an even longer childhood. Long childhood makes a technical and mental virtuoso out of man, but it also leaves a life-long residue of emotional immaturity in him.” In other words: Youth is crucial. It’s fragile and complicated. [...]
In Conversation with Crispin Glover
November 16, 2011 – 3:40 pm
He may wear a suit and speak politely to each fan at length, but make no mistake, the well-mannered actor/director, Crispin Hellion Glover (most widely known for his role as George McFly in 1985‘s highest grossing film, Back to the Future) does not leave much room for social graces in his artistic approach to film. For [...]
Richard Kern at Anthology Film Archives
September 23, 2011 – 1:44 pm
Anthology Film Archives will be screening two programs of films by Richard Kern this weekend. Shot in the 1980′s on Super-8 and originally distributed on VHS , the films are described by Anthology as as “darkly comedic, shocking, sexy, disturbed, debauched, violent, and really quite wonderful.” They feature the likes of Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, David [...]
