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Violet Lucca

Jerry Lewis + Work

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

Short Takes: Neon Bull

By Violet Lucca
March 3, 2016
(Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil/Uruguay/Netherlands, 2015)

Dream State

By Violet Lucca
March 3, 2016
In Cemetery of Splendor, Apichatpong Weerasethakul employs his entrancing language of metaphor to diagnose an ailing Thailand

Fear + Ana Mendieta

By Violet Lucca
February 25, 2016
What are you afraid of? And other trenchant questions raised by a performance artist's films

Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie + W.

By Violet Lucca
February 18, 2016
Open season: the dos and don'ts of long-form political satire

Hail, Caesar! + Illusions

By Violet Lucca
February 9, 2016
Who runs the dream factory? Two films that inject fantasy into Hollywood fact

Knowing Me, Knowing You: I Knew Her Well + Marguerite

By Violet Lucca
February 2, 2016
Unnatural beauty: two films about female performers who can't quite take control of their image

Interview: Michel Gondry

By Violet Lucca
January 8, 2016
Two for the road: the DIY director discusses the deeply personal roots of his latest, heartfelt road movie, Microbe & Gasoline

Short Takes: Embrace of the Serpent

By Violet Lucca
January 4, 2016
(Ciro Guerra, Colombia, 2015)

Site Specifics: thecinetourist.net

By Violet Lucca
January 4, 2016
Mapmaker, Mapmaker

Essential Films: Mad Max: Fury Road

By Violet Lucca
December 14, 2015
Built for speed and meticulously crafted, George Miller’s postapocalyptic road movie pulls out all the stops

Review: Chi-Raq

By Violet Lucca
December 8, 2015
Love is a battlefield: a reinvigorated Spike Lee can't stop the agitprop, but he keeps tripping over his depiction of women

Site Specifics: The Chiseler

By Violet Lucca
November 4, 2015
This Just In

Short Takes: The Hallow

By Violet Lucca
November 4, 2015
(Corin Hardy, Ireland/U.K., 2015)

Short Takes: Theeb

By Violet Lucca
November 4, 2015
(Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan/U.K./UAE/Qatar, 2014)

Review: Crimson Peak

By Violet Lucca
October 21, 2015
Horror show, horror tell: Guillermo del Toro’s misunderstood film revives a gothic psychological tradition, garnished with sumptuous flourishes

Interview: Laurie Anderson

By Violet Lucca
October 13, 2015
The New York artist retraces her steps and finds the words (and images) in Heart of a Dog

NYFF Interview: Ben Rivers

By Violet Lucca
October 2, 2015
The director of The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers talks about his hypnotic Moroccan experimental epic

Site Specifics: Teen Screen Feminism

By Violet Lucca
September 3, 2015

Interview: Danny Glover

By Violet Lucca
September 2, 2015
From To Sleep with Anger to Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives to The Narrow Frame of Midnight, the actor-producer sets the record straight on film and history