Friends at UC Davis and adjacent areas. I will be reading for the first time the portion of my book on the gentrified taco in November. Info in this poster. Very happy to return to Davis after fifteen years or so from the first time!
Wayne Wang’s Smoke, scripted by Paul Auster, is a blast from my past, a film that enchanted me as a teenager by replicating the structure of a postmodern novel into a cinematic canvas, worked out by a remarkable ensemble cast. In Criterion.
Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch, a sweet, warm, slow-simmering search for a love lost during the beginning of COVID lockdowns counterpointed by the nostalgic remembrance of left idealism and the promise of intercultural affect. In Peacock
Coralie Fargeat’s The Subtance takes body horror to its aesthetic and ideological extremes, building on citations to subvert exploitation cinema and the complicity of our gaze. Demi Moore’s performance at her most brilliant and Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid deliver bravura. In theaters.
Coralie Fargeat’s The Subtance takes body horror to its aesthetic and ideological extremes, building on citations to subvert exploitation cinema and the complicity of our gaze. Demi Moore’s performance at her most brilliant and Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid deliver bravura. In theaters.