Tribeca '24: Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. Also a Deconstruction of Performance. A Meta Cinematic Exercise. A Portrait of the Artist. A Guttural Scream.
Tribeca '24: Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. Also a Deconstruction of Performance. A Meta Cinematic Exercise. A Portrait of the Artist. A Guttural Scream.

A movie is a catharsis, a chance for Jeremy O. Harris to say, “This is what you were supposed to learn. Hear it from me. I am the authority on my work.”

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ReviewsJulia HebnerSlave Play., Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play., Slave Play, Jeremy O. Harris, Jeremy Harris, I. H. Stallings, documentary, Broadway, Antebellum, couples therapy, meta-textual, race, Whiteness, Black experienceComment
The Global Eccentricity of Tsui Hark and Wicked City
The Global Eccentricity of Tsui Hark and Wicked City

Embracing global cinema has the ability to cross cultural and cinematic barriers: how the filmmaker uses action and visual storytelling as a universal language, how the filmmaker connects their personal story to broader themes, and how the filmmaker embraces the absurdity of the world around us. In Tsui Hark’s Wicked City (1992), we have one of global cinema’s finest and oddest examples. 

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Analysis, ReviewsDylan SamuelTsui Hark, Wicked CityComment
There is Only Time and Place: Discussing Romance and Cinema with Shaun Seneviratne
There is Only Time and Place: Discussing Romance and Cinema with Shaun Seneviratne

For director Shaun Seneviratne, life is cinema and cinema is life. His first feature film, Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in Four Parts, which debuted at SXSW this year, places the viewer as a fly on the wall, witnesses to a week in the life of a couple’s attempt to figure out their future. It is the result of a fourteen-year-long filmmaking process.

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InterviewsJulia HebnerShaun Seneviratne, SXSW, Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in Four Parts, French New Wave, Eric Rohmer, Jean Luc Goddard, Wong Kar Wai, François TruffautComment
Movie Musical Underdogs, A List
Movie Musical Underdogs, A List

Movie musicals have been a persistent staple in American culture nearly as long as movies themselves have. Therefore, it is worth discussing ten movie musicals you may have seldom stopped to consider next to standards like Singin’ in the Rain or Cabaret or Grease. These unsung heroes of the movie musical genre are begging for more love and attention.

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ListsHailie Goldfunny face, audrey hepburn, kay thompson, fred astaire, stanley donen, the young girls of rochefort, catherine deneuve, françoise dorléac, jacques demy, the boy friend, twiggy, ken russell, Phantom of the Paradise, popeye, robin williams, shelley duvall, Robert Altman, cry-baby, john waters, johnny depp, velvet goldmine, Todd Haynes, ewan mcgregor, christian bale, jonathan rhys meyers, toni collette, dancer in the dark, Björk, lars von trier, across the universe, julie taymor, annette, adam driver, marion cotillard, sparksComment
Glen Powell goes chameleonic in Hit Man
Glen Powell goes chameleonic in Hit Man

Hit Man, the latest from Austin’s own director Richard Linklater and actor Glen Powell, looks like the opposite of film noir, particularly as described by Schrader, at first. It’is a funny, sexy, sunny character study, in which Powell and co-star Adria Arjona build a thorny romance that turns on curiosity as much as it does attraction. Powell’s mild-mannered philosophy professor Gary Johnson, who’s moonlightsing as an imposter hitman for the New Orleans Police Department, provides a chance for him to go both broad and deep. It’s consistently a hoot.

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ReviewsJustin HarrisonComment