Remembering Filmmaker Chris Marker, Meditator on Memory and National Flux
Chris Marker, one of cinema’s most innovative philosopher-explorers (and latterly a multimedia artist), has died one day after his ninety-first birthday. Though best known for his sole fiction film,...
View ArticleKylie Minogue Haunts “Holy Motors” With a Love Song for the Ages
Kylie Minogue A year after “Pretty in Pink,” Molly Ringwald acquitted herself admirably as a postmodern Cordelia opposite Burgess Meredith in the 1987 “King Lear,” though the idea of the Bratpacker...
View ArticleGreta Gerwig Grows Up Ever So Gradually in Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha”
Once, when praising Greta Gerwig to a woman critic, I was sternly told: “I don’t get her – is it a guy thing?” Well, yes and no. There’s a retro rescue-me quality about Gerwig’s combination of Carole...
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