Essays
On Annie Ernaux’s The Super 8 Years, and a lifetime of stowin’ away the time “Now society had a name, ‘consumer society,’” Annie Ernaux writes in her 2008 opus The Years: Spending was in the air. There was a resolute appropriation of leisure goods […] Television sets were turned in
Essays
Director Daniel Goldhaber on his film How to Blow Up a Pipeline In August of 2003, a few months after George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech, the Pentagon’s Directorate for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, an anti-guerilla task force, circulated a flier to officers and civilians advertising a
Essays
Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason on his film Godland Godland begins, like Fargo, with a title card announcing a spurious real-life inspiration for the film: in this case, a cache of seven wet-plate photographs, taken by a Danish priest in the 19th century, that are the first known pictures of South
Essays
Channing Tatum and His Magic Mikes, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Knoxville, Simon Rex, and the Himbo Ascendent Dog, starring Channing Tatum as an ex–Army Ranger with PTSD who bonds with his unit’s Multi-Purpose Canine en route to his buddy’s funeral, is a road-movie two-hander in which one character
Essays
Eyes Wide Shut is New York back lot Pauline Kael’s review of Blade Runner, from 1982, contains a complaint that sounds to me more like a compliment, or even a clue: “We’re always aware of the sets as sets.” The future Los Angeles of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi