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Issue 46: Profiles

April 2017

Heart of Glass

Karina Wolf·
Issue 46: Profiles
Isabelle Huppert is foremost an actress of maturity.
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Tales of Ordinary Sadness: Melancholy in The Cinema of Chantal Akerman

Joseph Earp·
Issue 46: Profiles
Chantal Akerman’s films make their great humanist case simply by existing. Her characters do not wax poetic about their plight, or launch into monologues about the tragedy that defines them. Instead, they live.
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Time is Part of the Work: An Interview with Agnes Varda

Aaron Stewart-Ahn·
InterviewsIssue 46: Profiles
“All images are questions. if you look at everything, a painting, an image, you can question… The way you look at it, what it brings to your mind, if it reminds you of something. My god."
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Flesh and Emptiness: or, 42 Ways of Looking at Paul Verhoeven

Brad Nelson·
Issue 46: Profiles
Paul Verhoeven's movies talk to each other through time. In other words, all of his movies are the same.
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Nighy Forever

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 46: Profiles
This is perhaps the part of the essay where I admit, fully, that I love him. I love Bill Nighy.
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Ghost in the (ScarJo)

Zosha Millman·
Issue 46: Profiles
Into every generation, an “it girl” is born.
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Open Book

Karen Han·
Issue 46: Profiles
Ben Mendelsohn's most striking when he's allowed to return to the kind of work he was getting nearer to at the beginning of his career: unapologetically tender.
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The Promise of Pain in Karyn Kusama’s Films

Rae Nudson·
Issue 46: Profiles
In her hands, women’s pain can be destructive, motivating, toxic, or cathartic, but it is always taken seriously.
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Jeff Nichols: The Savior of the South

Taylor Hawkins·
Issue 46: Profiles
An entire world exists below the Mason-Dixon Line, almost untouched by time, waiting to have her stories told. Nichols, it seems, has taken on that job.
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“Sexuality is complicated, Honey”: The Works of Lisa Cholodenko

Oli Picken·
Issue 46: Profiles
Cholodenko’s ambivalent relationship to the conventions of narrative has been a feature of her work, a constant push and pull that she explores, rages against, and is herself captured by.
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United States of Brie Larson

Bruno Alves·
Issue 46: Profiles
It may seem strange to say it, but Brie Larson is not Brie Larson.
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