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The Reading Life: Adapted Patricia Highsmith and Steve McQueen in San Francisco
Knowing where all the movie theaters are in the Bay Area taught me a considerable amount of geography. The Embarcadero Center, spanning five blocks and connected with hypnotic tile, is not just named conveniently for its adjacent landmark. It’s also the home of an excellent art house theater. You can almost see it in The Conversation. There’s Harrison Ford, lying to reporters in the breezeway. Leave San Francisco, and things get less glamorous. You sit in boxy multiplexes, designed with […]
David Lynch and Cinematic Lithography
We don’t want to be presumptuous, but we’d be willing to bet that more than a few of our readers are fans of the films of David Lynch. Similarly, we also suspect that it’s likely that more than a few of you are fond of well-printed objects — lithographs, for instance. Thus, Lynch’s short film IDEM PARIS may well be of interest to some of you. For those seeking the history of this project, Twitchfilm has more details. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn […]
The Film Adaptation Of Tao Lin’s “Shoplifting From American Apparel” MIGHT Come To New York
The film version of Tao Lin’s Shoplifting From American Apparel might be coming to New York (and other cities), the catch is that they need to sell enough tickets to make it happen. Go here to read more. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
It Never Reigns in Southern California: A Review of Lena Dunham and Ry Russo-Young’s “Nobody Walks”
Nobody Walks directed by Ry Russo-Young Magnolia Pictures, 2012 Nobody Walks opens beneath a flight pattern, glaring under warm California sun. In the airport parking garage, twenty-three year old Brooklyn émigré Martine (Olivia Thirlby) disinterestedly kisses a man. We presume they’re lovers, but get a small twist, all before opening credits roll over the ride from LAX to Silverlake. It’s an apt start to a film that views Los Angeles as a wood-paneled utopia in perpetual soft focus.
Somebody Please Explain This “Cloud Atlas” Comment To Us
New York recently featured a discussion between film critic David Edelstein and book critic Kathryn Schulz on the new film adaptation of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. The comments that followed include the one above, which manages to combine snark, utterly misplaced quotation marks, and Republican-bashing in a film that doesn’t in any way, shape, or form address contemporary partisan politics. Perhaps it’s a riddle; something that will ultimately be decoded by future generations. Perhaps those generations will subject it to Talmudic levels […]
Quotable: Alec Baldwin’s Glengarry Glen Ross Isn’t The Devil
The film adaptation of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross turned 20 this month, and Jeff Roda at The Atlantic talks a little bit about the brilliant performances of Alec Baldwin and Al Pacino and how one of them is the devil and the other isn’t:
John le Carré on Both Sides of the Pond
I saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy around this time last year, at the end of September. Not the Alec Guinness miniseries, which I have yet to watch, but the Tomas Alfredson film, the Gary Oldman one. I saw it in England. My aunt and uncle were driving my boyfriend and me back to their house in North London, from a day in Kent with my grandmother and my cousins who were several feet taller than when I last saw them. […]