Film: George Miller, Owen Kline's Directorial Debut

Film & Documentary

August 26, 2022 • View in browser

Riff on One Thousand and One Nights Longs for a Bygone Era of Filmmaking

Alternating between charmingly and cringingly unfashionable, George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing defies some orientalist tropes while falling prey to others. | Mark Asch

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DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

Funny Pages Mocks the Idea That Hardship Makes Art More Authentic

Owen Kline’s directorial debut follows a privileged teenage artist who decides to impose some grittiness on his life to improve his work. | Dan Schindel

But with the heyday of R. Crumb, Zap Comix, Harvey Kurtzman, and their ilk now bygone, how can an artist hope to embody their spirit? Particularly if you’re a terribly unworldly teenager who’s lived a comfortable upper-middle-class life far removed from the kind of hustle and deprivation that sharpened your idols’ pens? In Funny Pages, young Robert (Daniel Zolghadri) decides to voluntarily subject himself to hardship in the misguided belief that it’ll be good for his craft, instigating a humorously warped coming of age.

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