Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens (1982) and Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell (2019), which play back-to-back at the Brattle Theatre next week (Aug. 15) as a punk rock double feature, are films made in completely different keys. One, Smithereens, is a snapshot of a 1980s New York City that no longer exists, captured in its gritty, natural […]
INTERVIEW: CHLOË SEVIGNY
Chloë Sevigny is an actress/writer/director/fashion designer who has been a staple of the American independent cinema since the mid 1990s, with her notable performances including those in Kids (1995), Gummo (1997), Boys Don’t Cry (1999), The Brown Bunny (2004), Zodiac (2007), and Love & Friendship (2016), among innumerable others. In The Dead Don’t Die (2019), […]
INTERVIEW: ALEX ROSS PERRY
Alex Ross Perry is an American writer/director who has made six films to date, including Listen Up Philip (2014), Queen of Earth (2016), and Golden Exits (2018). His latest film is Her Smell (2019), which depicts the lead singer of a fictional 90s rock band, Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss) in five long scenes (they make […]
ALT-OSCARS: WHAT ELSE IS ON?
Why watch the Oscars this Sunday?
‘LISTEN UP PHILIP’ … ROTH
At once humanist and grotesque, elegant and acidic, Listen Up Philip cuts down an entire culture of self-mythologizing white male creators.
