As someone who’s been keenly aware of my fallibility and mortality for quite some time now, and who’s long been interested in the study and nurture of my own spirit, I will say there was a clarity to the passing of Anthony Bourdain three summers ago. Not only an untimely and unkind finality, but an […]
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Traveler Check
There we were summer of 2018, roaming the cloisters of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, Portugal, when news broke that Anthony Bourdain had died. I found solace, reading word of his suicide on my phone, in that we were doing exactly what he had spent the latter part of his life advocating we all do, […]
‘Final Account’ x King of Cups
We need to talk about Nazis, don’t we. They were a thing that I thought we had dealt with last century, yet some people – 🙄 – are foolishly trying to make ’em happen again in various parts of the planet and all around the Internet right now as I type, even. How original. All […]
‘Promising Young Woman’ x King of Cups
Fuck Santa Claus – this extended, pandemical holiday movie season it’s Carey Mulligan’s Promising Young Woman the one who gets to judge who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. Indeed, Academy Award nominee Mulligan (An Education, Drive) is back on screens as Cassie, a character conceived and brought to vivid life by Emerald Fennell in […]
Who Doesn’t Want to Be a
Kajillionaire. That’s the title of the new Miranda July film that, like so others, was coming into 2020 hot from last January’s Sundance Film Festival. Things have changed. My, how have they. Anyway. The film, which was much-sought-after and boasts Oscar-winning producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (12 Years a Slave, Moonlight) among its champions, […]
Choosing to Carry On
Meanwhile, in the world, all of our lives have changed. Including Eliza Hittman’s. The writer-director of Beach Rats was coming into spring H-O-T-hot with Never Rarely Sometimes Always, an eagerly anticipated eye-opener of a film that was celebrated with a Dramatic Special Jury Prize at January’s Sundance Film Festival – on account of its cinematic neorealism and deftly […]
Political Appeal
Jon Stewart is at it again. As a writer-director of politically themed films, that is. The Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning erstwhile king of Comedy Central is following his 2014 directorial debut, the based-on-true-story political thriller Rosewater, with this spring’s Irresistible, a political satire centering on a Democratic National Committee strategist (played by Steve Carell, the former Daily […]
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