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Violet Lucca

Interview: Eliza Hittman

By Violet Lucca
January 24, 2017
Summer loving, happened so fast: the director of Beach Rats and It Felt Like Love discusses representing sex and sexuality on screen

Review: The Founder

By Violet Lucca
January 3, 2017
(John Lee Hancock, USA, The Weinstein Company, Opens January 20)

Short Take: Donald Cried

By Violet Lucca
January 3, 2017
(Kris Avedisian, USA, The Orchard, Opens March 3)

Directions: Bertrand Bonello

By Violet Lucca
January 3, 2017
In Bertrand Bonello’s terrorism drama Nocturama, radicals stalk Paris and take action

Interview: Alexander Lemke

By Violet Lucca
December 19, 2016
Out of the computer-generated shadows: a VFX veteran discusses the demands of making something out of nothing

The Lives of Others

By Violet Lucca
November 10, 2016
Margaret’s case study of an adolescent compulsively testing the limits of experience

Review: The Love Witch

By Violet Lucca
November 3, 2016
(Anna Biller, USA, Opening November 11)

The Cleaning Crew

By Violet Lucca
November 2, 2016
From touch-ups to full makeovers, the work of today’s digital artisans deserves more credit

Short Takes: The Handmaiden

By Violet Lucca
September 6, 2016
(Park Chan-wook, South Korea, Opening October 14)

Review: Microbe & Gasoline

By Violet Lucca
July 5, 2016
(Michel Gondry, France, 2015)

Short Takes: The Childhood of a Leader

By Violet Lucca
July 5, 2016
(Brady Corbet, U.K./France, 2015)

Representation + Belladonna of Sadness

By Violet Lucca
May 12, 2016
From reverence to rape: parsing the form and function of a provocative, newly restored cult animation classic

Review: Chevalier

By Violet Lucca
May 3, 2016
(Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece, 2015)

Artists + Making It

By Violet Lucca
April 22, 2016
The moment of creation: getting beyond the myth of tortured artistes in both nonfiction and fiction films

Interview: Gabriel Mascaro

By Violet Lucca
April 8, 2016
The lusty men and women: the Brazilian director of Neon Bull discusses pregnant pauses and democratic depictions of sex

No Home Movie + Grief

By Violet Lucca
March 30, 2016
Mothership connection: Chantal Akerman’s eternal return to the love and trauma of the parent-child relationship

Blue Velvet + Homecoming

By Violet Lucca
March 25, 2016
I Remember Mama: the what-if alternative version of David Lynch's seminal suburban psychodrama, on its 30th anniversary

Interview: Anna Rose Holmer, Saela Davis & Lisa Kjerulff

By Violet Lucca
March 21, 2016
After-school special: the director and co-writers of The Fits talking about getting into rhythm with their sui generis film about young dancers

The Student Nurses + Exploitation

By Violet Lucca
March 10, 2016
Chronic condition: on the frustrations of working within any system built for speed

Jerry Lewis + Work

By Violet Lucca
March 4, 2016
Personal fortune: parsing the Horatio Alger myths inside the master comedian's films