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Violet Lucca

Sundance 2022 Dispatch #4: Fiction

By Violet Lucca
February 7, 2022
Catch the drift: though many films seemed to be chasing the success of Get Out, a number of excellent fiction features at this year’s festival played by their own rules

Home Movies Reviews JA 18

By Violet Lucca
July 18, 2018
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Allan Dwan & Douglas Fairbanks x 2:
The Good Bad Man, USA, 1916; The Half-Breed,…

Worldly Wise

By Violet Lucca
July 2, 2018
Isao Takahata leaves behind a quietly bold legacy of emotional maturity to the sometimes infantilized realm of animation

Interview: Lola Arias

By Violet Lucca
April 4, 2018
A place in the sun: veterans from both sides of the Falklands War come together to re-enact and retrace their memories in Theatre of War

Interview: Ishmael Reed

By Violet Lucca
March 30, 2018
Symbol of the unconquered: the Mumbo Jumbo author discusses Personal Problems, his newly restored video collaboration with Bill Gunn (and many others)

SXSW Interview: PJ Raval

By Violet Lucca
March 21, 2018
Open season: the director of Come & Take It discusses the issues around the gun debate and the limits of our current political discourse

SXSW Interview: Eugene Kotlyarenko

By Violet Lucca
March 16, 2018
It me, fam: the droll and biting Wobble Palace takes on our addled digital culture

SXSW Interview: Lauren Greenfield

By Violet Lucca
March 15, 2018
No free rides: the renowned photographer discusses her latest documentary, Generation Wealth, which traces our obsession with money and beauty over the past 25 years

Review: Downsizing

By Violet Lucca
January 3, 2018
(Alexander Payne, Country/Distributor: USA, Paramount, Opened December 22)

Beyond Awful

By Violet Lucca
December 20, 2017
Reform following systemic abuse in the film industry requires more than outrage and token gestures

Review: I, Tonya

By Violet Lucca
November 3, 2017
(Craig Gillespie, USA, Neon, Opening December 8)

Night Gallery

By Violet Lucca
November 3, 2017
The Return brought the radical multimedia art of David Lynch into American living rooms

Review: The Challenge

By Violet Lucca
September 1, 2017
(Director: Yuri Ancarani, Country/Distributor: France/Italy, Kino Lorber, Opening: September 8)

Interview: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

By Violet Lucca
July 17, 2017
Hold still: the Japanese filmmaker delves into the uncanny once again, this time on French soil, in Daguerrotype

Short Take: Endless Poetry

By Violet Lucca
July 3, 2017
(Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chile/Japan/France, ABKCo Films, Opens July 14)

Review: Beatriz at Dinner

By Violet Lucca
May 3, 2017
(Miguel Arteta, USA, 
Roadside Attractions, Opens June 9)

Frame to Frame: Nocturama

By Violet Lucca
May 3, 2017
In the final scene of Nocturama, the state’s brutal logic is fulfilled

Festivals: Miami 2017

By Violet Lucca
March 27, 2017
On international waters: this year's festival presented a wide-ranging selection of fiction and documentary films that made difficult subject matter accessible but not glib

Review: Contemporary Color

By Violet Lucca
March 3, 2017
(Bill and Turner Ross, USA, Oscilloscope, Opens March 1)

No Joke

By Violet Lucca
February 28, 2017
Out of touch and rehashing ideas, is American comedy simply circling the drain?