December 2011
7 posts
SHAME & the city
Excerpt from Sean Burns’ Philadelphia Weekly interview with SHAME director Steve McQueen.
PW: I lived in New York City for years, so I’m fascinated by your depiction of Manhattan as a shimmering, steel palace of isolation.
Steve McQueen: For me it’s very strange, as a European. A lot of New Yorkers live and work in the sky. What’s amazing is that you always have a perspective of...
Michael Sicinski on DRIVE
DRIVE (Winding Refn 11) [tentative 7]
Just succulent. A total movie-movie, completely committed to surfaces and simulacra, but w/o the irony that typically hobbles such enterprises. Instead it locates the tough-as-nails romanticism in LA sheen, 80s synth and fonts, neo-hardboiled patter, & vacant glowering charisma. Also, it’s a pure, plastic exploration of spatial possibilities....