Posts by Kevin Lincoln
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Q&A: ‘Selma’ DP Bradford Young on the LBJ Controversy, Being a Black Cinematographer, and ‘A Most Violent Year’
The cinematographer for two of 2014’s most acclaimed films shares his thoughts on filming 1980s New York and 1960s Alabama.
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Ethan Hawke Is the Emotional Scotch Tape That Holds the Fun ‘Predestination’ Together
With the success of ‘Boyhood,’ Hawke is having a bit of a moment.
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He Pulls You Back In: Al Pacino Is in Full Flight, Despite the Material, in ‘The Humbling’
Based on Philip Roth’s 30th novel, ‘The Humbling’ is a passion project from an actor who lately hasn’t seemed to show much interest, let alone passion, in his career. And yet, here we have a chance for redemption, insofar as the man who played Michael Corleone could ever need such a thing.
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And the Oscar for Crying on the Phone Goes to Sienna Miller
The options available for a comeback are very different for men than they are for women.
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Get Sandy Bullock a Copy of MS-DOS: The Definitive Movie Hacker Power Rankings
DISCLAIMER: Reading this post without a pair of fingerless gloves on is dangerous and not recommended. This weekend, we will all have the experience we’ve been looking forward to our whole lives: watching Thor play a hacker in a Michael Mann film. Chris Hemsworth’s turn as a felon furloughed to fight cybercrime, directed by the […]
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We Went There: Aaron Paul, Ellen Page, and Stephen Merchant’s ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Live Read
Even if you aren’t more than a casual participant in the cult of ‘Star Wars,’ it’s fascinating to see this worship carried out in person.
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Football Season’s Finally Here: It’s Time to Open Your Heart and Let Johnny Manziel In
Johnny Manziel is a person worth watching, not just a cog in a football machine. If you aren’t an adherent of Belichick’s Art of War or football’s auteur culture in general, this is a welcome change.
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Sarah Gadon’s Unusual Map to Stardom
Being in David Cronenberg films comes at a certain cost: Your body might be mutilated, or you might end up doing something unspeakable to someone else’s body. It isn’t everyone’s idea of a Saturday night, but Sarah Gadon has been making it work.
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Nicolas Cage’s ‘Dying of the Light’ Is the Crackpot, Patchwork Cinematic Disaster We Thought It Would Be
Watching the ‘Dying of the Light’ that now exists commercially, it’s easy to side with Paul Schrader’s claims that his version was reedited by the studio — the sequencing here is so bad, so manic and insane, that it almost seems experimental.
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The World Is a Vampire: The Pleasures of ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’
In the era of manifold information, of content nausea, and direct-to-YouTube film releases, creators and publishers go to grosser lengths than ever to distinguish their work. As a result, I’d understand if you viewed with suspicion the label that’s been attached to ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,’ the supercool writer-director (and winner of the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award at Monday’s Gotham Awards) Ana Lily Amirpour’s first full-length effort: “Iranian vampire-Western.”
