I'm fascinated by late work made with reduced means that sometimes turns into outsider art, no matter how famous the artists might have been earlier. This is perhaps the ultimate example.
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Overdose 1983
The scenes of life as a teenage heroin addict follow a very familiar, if real, path: experimenting with snorting dope, quickly moving up to injecting it, committing crimes to support one's habit, the first experiences of withdrawal and relapse. The story of two boys who struggle with heroin is set against the backdrop of Basque politics; one's father is a soldier who takes him to a brothel to sleep with a sex worker the day he turns 18, the other…
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 2020
The popular idea that comedy needs to “punch up” is too simplistic. It’s not always easy to figure out who has real power – the small army of cis male comics who think transphobia is the height of free thought are rather confused about it – or how to use humor to criticize Karens roaming Wal-Mart screaming at anyone with a mask on or empty female Instagram influencers without buying into sexist attitudes. (Look at how badly jokes about Britney…
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The French Dispatch 2021
The Wes Anderson backlash has been going on for years now, and I'm not trying to jump on it with my reaction to THE FRENCH DISPATCH. While Anderson's made several great films, his latest displays his worst instincts. And "display" is the right word - his framing places actors like elements of an art installation rather than people with believable inner lives. For a film so heavily worked over, it's astonishingly devoid of passion - the New Yorker (and James…
