Programmed December 2020
Three by Rick Alverson
Featuring a new interview with the filmmaker Watching a film by Rick Alverson can be a singularly uncomfortable experience—but just try to look away. Refusing to conform to tidy narrative arcs and conventional notions of “likable” characters, Alverson creates transgressive, confrontational, tragicomic portraits of masculinity in crisis that dare viewers to stare into the existential void. Following the journeys of a foundering Afghanistan veteran ( New Jerusalem ), a relentlessly nihilistic Brooklyn hipster (Tim Heidecker in The Comedy ), and a repellent stand-up comedian (Gregg Turkington, a.k.a. Neil Hamburger, in Entertainment ), Alverson’s films reckon unflinchingly with the loneliness at the heart of modern American life. Added on Thursday, 17 December 2020
3 films
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