Mark Asch

The Big Screen: Motherless Brooklyn

By Mark Asch

November 5, 2019

Edward Norton’s film is not just nostalgic for the New York City it recreates, but fixated on the moment of its loss

Short Takes: The Mountain

By Mark Asch

July 23, 2019

In his latest, Rick Alverson employs that most frontal of metaphors: the lobotomy

Review: The Juniper Tree

By Mark Asch

March 14, 2019

Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm

The Big Screen: High Flying Bird

By Mark Asch

January 28, 2019

The air up there: Steven Soderbergh discovers yet another profession whose practitioners’ for-hire physiques stand in for the gig-to-gig economics of his own creative hustle.

Home Movies: Library Streaming Services

By Mark Asch

January 2, 2019

(Kanopy & Hoopla Digital)

Review: Bisbee ’17

By Mark Asch

September 4, 2018

(Robert Greene, USA, 4th Row Films, Opening September 5)

Interview: Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

By Mark Asch

June 27, 2018

O, hey, pioneers: the directors of Two Plains & a Fancy and L for Leisure talk about intermingling old worlds and new

Review: Araby

By Mark Asch

May 1, 2018

(João Dumans & Affonso Uchoa, Brazil, Grasshopper Film, Opening June 8)

Short Take: Old Stone

By Mark Asch

November 3, 2016

(Johnny Ma, China/Canada, Opening November 30)

Review: Hors Satan

By Mark Asch

January 15, 2013

Can you believe it? Bruno Dumont’s latest controlled experiment in faith

Festivals: SXSW 2012

By Mark Asch

May 3, 2012

Hedging was big at Austin this year—on both sides of the camera