Photo Essay by Andy Witchger: Kindness at Minneapolis’ 7th Street Entry
“Bainbridge navigated the stage gracefully, curating what felt like an intimate house party with an impeccable playlist.”
Photographic Memory in Frank Beauvais’ ‘Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream’
“Beauvais does what the essay filmmaker ought do: he appropriates film to his own ends. The combination of words and pictures rings nary a false note.”
Review: Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’
“At once riveting and entertaining, while inciting in the viewer visceral and arduous self-reflection, ‘Marriage Story’ is an uncompromising and deeply affectionate reflection on what pulls us apart and yet what keeps us bound together despite it all.”
The Absent Presence in ‘Klute’
“In dramatizing themes of absence and presence so thoroughly, ‘Klute’ embodies a central feature of neo-noir; as a self-conscious revision of a classic film cycle, noir is always both absent and present in neo-noir films.”