Last week, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, directed by Douglas Gordon in collaboration with Philippe Parreno, showed at both BAM and Anthology Film Archives. Winner of FIFA World Player of the Year three times and both the European and World Cups with France, Zinedine Zidane is mainly known in North America for having brutally head-butted [...]
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NY.2022 at The Guggenheim
In conjunction with the opening of their new group show theanyspacewhatever, the Guggenheim presented NY.2022, an “orchestral installation” by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin Meyers, inspired by Soylent Green (1973), a sci-fi police procedural starring Charlton Heston and set in 2022 in a dystopian New York City.
Opening against a backdrop of Alex MacLean’s aerial photographs [...]
For the Vampire that Listens in the Snow: Let the Right One In
While it was billed as a Swedish horror film, comes with the requisite blood and gore, and was released suspiciously close to Halloween, Let the Right One In is not a typical preteen vampire movie, per se — it’s simply a movie about preteens. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema gives us a broken, Cold War suburb [...]
Oscar Carlson: A Master’s Protégé
British conceptual artist Martin Creed has many irons in the fire. Aside from operating a Warholian studio factory responsible for turning poetic concepts into art objects, he performs in a rock band and runs a gallery. As of this past month, he can add promoter of new talent to his résumé. To accompany his [...]
The Pleasure of Being Robbed at IFC
The Pleasure of Being Robbed is the debut feature by young filmmaker Josh Safdie. Beautifully shot on 16 mm in the late night/early morning streets of New York, it tells the story of Eleonore (played by Eleonore Hendricks, who also co-wrote the film with Safdie), a kleptomaniac wandering the city — stealing wallets, purses, and [...]
