A mid-winter love affair feels decadent but also rather necessary, and Cold War rewards like a hot chocolate spiked with brandy: warming, bracing, to be savored. Read More
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JoinedMay 27, 2017
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Karina Wolf has been a Staff Writer at Bright Wall/Dark Room since 2013. She studied literature and film in New York, Paris, and Dublin, and works in television and film production. She is the author of the children’s book The Insomniacs, and her upcoming book, I Am Not a Fox, will be out in October 2018. She lives in Manhattan with her two dogs, Luca and Barry Manilow.
On Ingmar Bergman's The Passion of Anna Read More
The question of Nocturnal Animals, with its parallel narratives that never quite connect, becomes: what is the urgency of a story in which its greatest violence is called out as fiction? Read More
Like many of Hitchcock’s films, Spellbound is a work that is elegant, uncanny, uneasy, and compelling. Read More
Amid the world’s surfeit of impressions and images, distractions and demands, Wings of Desire shows us how to recognize the real and the urgent. Read More
In Phantom Thread, the concession of loving is not an ending, nor a triumph—it is a turn of the screw. Read More
Isabelle Huppert is foremost an actress of maturity. Read More
On Andrew Dominik’s documentary, One More Time With Feeling, which follows The Bad Seeds as they record their newest album, Skeleton Tree. Read More
A movie about Christmas is a movie about rituals as well as magic. Read More
In his art, Prince was America’s answer to Schopenhauer—he was a lightning rod, an earworm, an internal monologue from outside. Read More
This is life according to Miller’s Crossing: friendships are canceled and reinvented; allegiances sworn, reviled, reinstated; lives snuffed out and reborn. Read More
As Carol, Blanchett is both boldly assured and covertly lost. Her voice is deepened and authoritative, her body language at once contained and careless. Read More