Danny King
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New York, NY, United States
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Winona (Talks) Forever, With Keanu, in “Destination Wedding”
Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves are the unwanted guests of a California wine-country wedding in Victor Levin’s amiable-aimless rom-com, a premise the writer-director commits to... → Read More
“Support the Girls” Is a Winning, Rambunctious Comedy About Work in America
Support the Girls marks a thorough airing-out of a most welcome subgenre: the workplace comedy of escalating crises. Unyieldingly patient Lisa (Regina Hall) runs an... → Read More
Claire Denis Beguiles Again in the Piercing “Let the Sunshine In”
Few directors can rival Claire Denis in the department of wordless seduction. From Valeria Bruni Tedeschi shooting nervous giggles at Vincent Gallo in a “God... → Read More
Theodore Witcher Talks “Love Jones,” 21 Years Later — and Why He Hasn’t Made a Follow-Up
Love Jones, which turned twenty last year, screens in 35mm at BAMcinématek this Wednesday, the evening of Valentine’s Day. The only movie to date written... → Read More
With “Golden Exits,” Alex Ross Perry Has Crafted an Intimate Brooklyn Epic
With Golden Exits, Alex Ross Perry’s latest, the writer-director of such tightly focused studies as Listen Up Philip (2014) and Queen of Earth (2015) has... → Read More
A Country Star Learns What Really Matters in the Too-Obvious “Forever My Girl”
The small-town-Louisiana-set Forever My Girl kicks off with a Hallmark-perfect setup: In about twelve minutes, beloved local Josie Preston (Jessica Rothe) is set to marry... → Read More
Living Up to Its Title, “Empathy” Offers a Compassionate Study of a Sex Worker
A hybrid documentary distinguished by emotional tenderness and compositional elegance, Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli’s Empathy presents fragments from the life of Em Cominotti, a queer... → Read More
Tense Drama “1945” Details a Little-Known Slice of Second World War History
Ferenc Török’s black-and-white drama, which compellingly charts the course of just a few hours in a Hungarian village on August 12, 1945, probes an underrepresented... → Read More
With “Mindhunter,” David Fincher Amps Up His Fascination With the Criminally Insane
Mindhunter, the Netflix series that debuted earlier this month, takes place in 1977 America, amid a nation still fearful of, and confused by, the emergence... → Read More
“Crown Heights” Tells a Compelling True Story With Jarring Impatience
In adapting for the screen the long, hard story of Colin Warner — a Trinidadian native who, as a Brooklyn teenager in 1980, was wrongfully... → Read More
“Marjorie Prime” Peels Back the Emotional Layers of Losing a Loved One
Leave it to Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) to make a science fiction movie that consists of little more than scenes of two characters talking in plushly... → Read More
Clint Eastwood’s Great “Unforgiven” Is a Western in Slow Motion
It’s a pleasure to be reminded, on the 25th birthday of Unforgiven — that weightiest of Clint Eastwood westerns; you know, the one that definitively... → Read More
Feast on Science-Fiction Rarities at the Museum of Modern Art’s “Future Imperfect” Series
Where to begin with the Museum of Modern Art’s “Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction”? This gargantuan cinephilic treat is of almost irresponsible scope:... → Read More
Amy Ryan’s Cough Drops (And Other Performance Rituals)
Obie winners reveal their pre- and post-show routines → Read More
Lim’s Lynch
The author of 'The Man From Another Place' on the weepy daring of 'Twin Peaks' → Read More
Suture's Cross-Racial Noir Twinning Demands Rediscovery
The stuff of Suture (1993) — a Hitchcock-echoing wrong-man narrative shot in noir-indebted black-and-white and replete with big guns and hokey psychoanalysis — is the stuff of Hollywood. But co-writers and -directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, who are both white and who were in their early thirties and inexperienced... → Read More
Tribeca’s Brightest Spots: Movies to Seek Out at the Ever-Growing Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival, founded in 2002 partly to shore up morale in the downtown neighborhood after 9-11, now has screenings that take place in midtown, in Chelsea, and on the Upper West Side. It plays host to short- and feature-length movies, family programming, concerts (this year, Sean Combs), television... → Read More
"Five Came Back" Illuminates the Art and Fate of Great Directors in WWII
Unpromisingly, Five Came Back, a series that surveys the military service of Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens, and William Wyler — who cut off their Hollywood careers to serve in the Second World War and were thereafter irrevocably changed both in profession and in life — opens... → Read More
Robert Kramer Motors Through the American Mind in the Epic "Route 1/U.S.A."
In Route 1/U.S.A. (1989), a four-hour-plus impression of America at the tail end of a conservative decade, director Robert Kramer embarks on a highway... → Read More
Remembering the Village Voice's Fashion Insert Vue
This is the Village Voice's second full issue dedicated to fashion — but the paper's history of fashion coverage runs far deeper than that. From 1985 to '86, the Voice published Vue, a style magazine that ran six times within the paper, featuring an array of photographers better known for... → Read More