Film: Sex on Screen, Method Acting, "Nope,"

Film & Documentary

July 22, 2022 • View in browser

Jordan Peele’s Nope Is Funny, Intelligent, and Horrifying

Another equally thrilling and smart ride from the rising director, subtly tackling intersecting ideas about “seeing” and “being seen” along the way. | Dan Schindel

Nope is also about the philosophy of spectacle, the attention economy, hustle culture, and, believe it or not, the treatment of animals in Hollywood, among other things. That it manages all this without holding the audience’s hand while also being consistently exciting, funny, and actually fucking scary is even more thrilling.

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CURATING CINEMA

A Series Spotlights NY’s Underground Art and Cinema in the Early 1960s

Focused on the years 1962–1964, a program by Film at Lincoln Center pairs with a Jewish Museum exhibition and a survey at Film Forum. | Billy Anania

A Crash Course in Method Acting

Hyperallergic talks to historian Isaac Butler and curator Livia Bloom Ingram about how performance technique evolves and what is and isn’t method acting. | Dan Schindel

Talking Sex With Two Film Curators

Hyperallergic talks to programmers Róisín Tapponi and Jed Rapfogel about their Anthology Film Archives retrospective and formative erotic film experiences. | Dan Schindel

INSIGHTFUL DOCUMENTARIES

A Documentary Unravels the Danger of Being Black and Pregnant in the US

Aftershock, directed by Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt, explains the disproportionate rate of Black maternal mortality in the US. | Dan Schindel

A Documentary Traces How Prisoners Documented Nazi Concentration Camps

From Where They Stood examines the rare phenomenon of prisoners who were able to provide direct victim documentation of the Holocaust. | Dan Schindel

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An Epic Fantasy About a World Plagued by Disease in The Deer King

Directed by Studio Ghibli alumni Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji, the film grounds the supernatural in realistic-feeling details. | Kambole Campbell