The curiously celibate romantic action comedies of Edgar Wright and Peter Bogdanovich, the rhyming wordplay of Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson…they all owe their existence to screwballs.
INTERVIEW: “EX-MACHINA” DIRECTOR ALEX GARLAND ON THE BULLSHIT OF FILM CULTS
Most claims to artistic ownership of a film boil down to marketing plots and ego trips. In other words, they’re total bullshit.
ICYMI: REWIND TO THE BEST OF 2014 CINEMA AT THE BRATTLE
A film released in January is as likely to receive critical acclaim, box office success, or your own stamp of approval as a guy with a knife is to win a gunfight. Luckily, the Brattle is serving up the antidote to this month’s smorgasbord of sure-fire shit with a selection of 2014’s best.
‘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.
