admin

admin

The Cruel Abstraction of “Beast Games”

The Cruel Abstraction of “Beast Games” 8

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Beast Games,” a reality-competition show currently streaming on Amazon Prime, opens with a dramatic camera shot, circling in three-sixty degrees to capture the show’s host, a skinny young man holding a…

The Henri Cartier-Bresson of South Korea

The Henri Cartier-Bresson of South Korea 10

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Let’s start with the photographer himself. A self-portrait, which, like the rest of Han Youngsoo’s work, is in black-and-white—not a nostalgic choice, just the technology of the times. It’s deep winter,…

How David Lynch Became an Icon of Cinema

How David Lynch Became an Icon of Cinema 38

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Thursday morning, I happened to be rereading Pauline Kael’s classic 1969 essay “Trash, Art, and the Movies.” A few hours later, I learned that David Lynch had died, and a sentence…