Tag: film

• Steve McQueen: ‘It’s all about the truth, nothing but the truth. End of’

  January 26, 2020

  First he was a Turner prize-winning artist, then a Oscar-winning film director. Now, with a knighthood and a Tate Modern retrospective, he explains why he’s still angry – and still… more ›

• Lena Waithe’s Art of Protest

  December 3, 2019

  The “Queen & Slim” writer on mixing art and politics, the key to collaboration and those infamous comments about Will Smith and Denzel Washington. Lena Waithe doesn’t so much tell… more ›

• Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: ‘We’re not doing this ever again’

  November 1, 2019

  ‘Hi guys and girls,” says Al Pacino brightly, making his entrance. He is sporting a veteran-boho look: what seems like about six black cardigans on top of each other, lots… more ›

• The Disruptive World of Edward Norton

  October 13, 2019

  Edward Norton’s intense, cerebral presence in a film has always been a fairly reliable indicator that you’re going to see something good. In recent years, though, Norton’s onscreen performances have… more ›

• The Planets, the Stars and Brad Pitt

  September 7, 2019

  LOS ANGELES — “Faster alone, further together,” Brad Pitt murmured. Over his left shoulder hung Mars, reddish-brown and heartbreakingly small, while to his right, the much grander Jupiter was lit… more ›

• ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance

  August 29, 2019

  Tasmania in the 1820s, as depicted in “The Nightingale,” is a ladder of cruelty. Nearly every human relationship is defined by domination and subjugation, a system of absolute violence organized… more ›

• The Absolute Best Documentaries on Netflix

  May 5, 2019

  Netflix is the great equalizer. When you’re sifting through zillions of movie options, the traditionally niche art of documentary can go toe to toe with Hollywood blockbusters, which means that… more ›

• The Poesis of Mimesis in Les Maîtres Fous: Looking Back at the Conspiratorial Ethnography of Jean Rouch

  January 3, 2019

  While on a surface level the film recounts an African possession ritual which critically burlesques colonialism, many viewers found it to have a colonialist perspective, exoticising “primitive” practices and reinforcing… more ›

• 36 Artists Give Advice to Young Creators: Wim Wenders, Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis, Patti Smith, David Byrne, Umberto Eco & More

  November 2, 2018

  36 Artists Give Advice to Young Creators: Wim Wenders, Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis, Patti Smith, David Byrne, Umberto Eco & More “Whatever you do, nobody else can do that better… more ›

• “Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa”

  February 19, 2018

  “Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa” » The Maison des Esclaves stands on the rocky shore of Gorée Island, off the coast of Senegal, like a great red tomb. more ›