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“Sex appeal is a big deal,” notes Ryland Walker Knight. “These Vanity Fair restagings seem to understand this, and are, for the most part, pretty cool.”
Michael Guillen reviews Medicine for Melancholy, which is due to premiere at SXSW, at The Evening Class. Barry Jenkins first feature, says Guillen, “looks like it was shot in black and white and tinted by hand.?? Whether or not Jenkins and [cinematographer James] Laxton intended this to parallel how the color can be taken out of a person of color through the compromise of assimilation and the coercion of gentrification is anyone???s guess; but, that???s how I read it.”
At ShortEnd Magazine, Noralil Ryan Flores reviews a book I’m currently dying to read, Pictures At A Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New. “Each moment, vivid as a snapshot, seeks its soul in that tireless inspiration not uncommon in Americana, that unflappable desire to produce, often at all costs–million dollar costs–the next big trend.”
Did Dennis Lim’s much-linked interview with Jacques Rivette inspire you to [re]familiarize yourself with the old French master’s work? You can watch three of his features on Jaman.