The Past Is a Spellbinding Open Book
Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s ‘Chronovisor’ speaks to a generation for whom the pre-digital era is a source of wonder, mystery and romance.
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Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New Criterion,the New York Observer, Slate, the Spectator World, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
Jack Auen and Kevin Walker’s ‘Chronovisor’ speaks to a generation for whom the pre-digital era is a source of wonder, mystery and romance.
By MARIO NAVES
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The directing duo “MASBEDO” have a static visual style better suited to photography than a moving medium like cinema.
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The veteran movie critic has written a book that is a welcome, if often vexatious, addition to a cinephile’s library.
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With the help of documentarian Alex Gibney, the acclaimed novelist bravely revisits his harrowing year of the knife.
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A hilarious, heart-pounding Korean sci-fi thriller.
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Isabel Hagen stars in, writes and directs ‘On a String,’ an appealingly modest portrait of artistic ambition and accomplishment.
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Documentarian Sam Green doggedly tracks down the world’s oldest living people.
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František Vláčil’s 1967 film “Marketa Lazarová” marries unflinching authenticity with stylistic audacity.
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MFA’s remarkable Egyptian exhibition shows that gender politics and power plays were as potent in the age of the pharaohs as they are today.
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In ‘Onslaught,’ Adam Wingard conjures a pulpy universe of evil men and fetishistic women.
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David Kittredge’s documentary revisits the hubris, money and miscalculation behind John Boorman’s disastrous 1977 “Exorcist” sequel.
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Could recent screenings of ‘My New Gun’ and ‘The Kill-Off’ at Film at Lincoln Center signal a revival of cinematic fare from the Garden State?
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