Jason LaRivière
NIHIL UNBOUND
Rick Alverson’s The Comedy
By Jason LaRivière
The Comedy, directed by Rick Alverson and starring Tim Heidecker with Eric Wareheim in a supporting role, is the blackest comedy about white privilege since at least David Fincher’s Fight Club, that fin-de-siècle paean to libertarian survivalism and Brad Pitt’s abs.
MORALLY PINK COMPLEXION
Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers
By Jason LaRivière
The enfant terrible of American independent cinema is back and here to prove correct at least the first part of the statement above, one that would have to be considered hitherto a fairly empty performative utterance given the aesthetically radical nature of earlier films like Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy.
THE THIRST FOR ANNIHILATION William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
By Jason LaRivièreThat William Friedkin’s 1977 film Sorcerer should be re-released in a glistening new 4K digital restoration at Film Forum in some sense betrays the spirit of the film, for few works of American cinema have been so grounded in the well-grubbed materiality of the earth...
