Nassau Weekly

Film

  • With Our Thoughts We Make the World

    With Our Thoughts We Make the World

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    Watching Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold while reading the Dhammapada.

  • Lo and Lana

    Lo and Lana

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    Re-constructing Lolita with Lana Del Rey

  • The Bourne Escalation

    The Bourne Escalation

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    Hollywood retconning just got personal.

  • Bone Tomahawk

    Bone Tomahawk

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    In a filmmaking era when movies are increasingly designed, focus-tested, and audience-approved to please, “Bone Tomahawk” is strangely refreshing for refusing us our simple pleasures.

  • On Screens & Esteem

    On Screens & Esteem

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    One day this summer, sitting in a blank white apartment that was not mine, I felt a strange weariness. This apartment was full of more books than I will probably ever read and I had fellowships to apply to and emails to write and the whole Internet in front of me and all of New…

  • Wes Anderson’s Oozing Nostalgia

    Wes Anderson’s Oozing Nostalgia

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    There is always an interesting tone to the buzz around the release of a new Wes Anderson film. People wonder if the new film will stick closely to Anderson’s unique style in order to satisfy his cult following or if it will lean more toward the mainstream in an effort to garner more fans and…

  • 12 Years a Slave

    12 Years a Slave

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    Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is tense and unflinching. Its relentless intensity and graphic brutality has been the defining feature in the media, but it is also an essential part of the film and the primary reason it could become the most important portrait of American slavery yet on camera.

  • Teenage Dreams

    Teenage Dreams

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    When I was young my mother would take me to the local theater for the free weekly movie. I watched everything they showed, sobbing through Peter Pan, laughing through Shrek 2, openly weeping at the death of Mufasa. It was my mom’s love of cinematic tales that really sparked my interest in film.

  • Beyond the Pines

    Beyond the Pines

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    Blue Valentine writer and director Derek Cianfrance’s latest film The Place Beyond the Pines is, if anything, a study in what Robert Penn Warren, legendary 1940s author of All the King’s Men, calls “the awful responsibility of Time.” We begin with Ryan Gosling’s character Luke Glanton, a reckless circus-performing motorcyclist. Seemingly out of nowhere, Luke…

  • Allegory of the Garden

    Allegory of the Garden

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    I had already seen the movie in theaters three times. Enjoyment is one word, obsession is another. The first three times, this film had sent me into hysterics, including, but not limited to impassioned weeping, strings of incoherent syllables, and frenzied gesticulation at the screen. In each of my three previous viewings, the usual suspects…

  • Spring Breakers

    Spring Breakers

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    Spring Breakers arrived in theaters last Friday only to confuse audiences around the country. The film begins practically pornographically, bare breasts splashed with beer and tan rears occupying the entire movie screen, accompanied by the aggressive sounds of Skrillex. It then flashes forward to the mundane and fictitious Kentucky College where four girls find they…

  • Apologetic Anne

    Apologetic Anne

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    As the recent New York Magazine article, “Why Do Women hate Anne Hathaway (But Love Jennifer Lawrence)?” thoughtfully explores, Anne Hathaway bugs people. Unlike the magnetic Jennifer Lawrence, Hathaway has always had trouble garnering public affection. For the most part, I try to stay away from the popular sport of celebrity hating that this article…