The mystery provocateurs behind last week’s eight-foot-tall golden monument of President Donald Trump crushing Lady Liberty have returned to Washington, D.C.’s National Mall with another contribution to the genre of unauthorized presidential fan art—this time, video. On Thursday morning, a life-sized, gold-painted television set appeared near Third Street NW, pointed squarely at the Capitol, the Washington Post reported. Its screen played a silent, 15-second loop of Donald Trump performing his now-infamous slow-motion dance moves—arms stiff, hips ambivalent, a slow-grinding shimmy—set against backdrops ranging from campaign rallies to a party with Jeffrey Epstein. The latter, for those who have forgotten, was the…
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You know we love a list here at ScreenCrush, and The New York Times published a whopper of a good one this week. They polled more than 500 directors, actors, and critics and compiled the results to create a list of the 100 best films of the 21st century.When all was said and done their choice for the top film of the last 26 years was … Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, the critically acclaimed Oscar Best Picture winner from 2019 about a poor Korean family that slowly worms its way into the lives of a wealthy family — with tragic results for almost…
Vampires, immortal as they are, will always be a part of horror cinema, either sparkling in the sunlight to woo teen girlfriends or trapping real estate agents in their ancient castles so their army of undead wives can suck their blood. They’ve made their way from whispered warnings in fairy tales and folklore to the biggest movie screens, and we haven’t gotten bored with their undead antics yet. (Although we could do with more vampires in capes; no one has cool capes in movies these days.)Plenty of vampire movies are lots of spooky fun, or even just funny, and the…
The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism’s most famous painting, created by its most famous artist, featuring its most famous motif. The painter, of course, is Salvador Dalí, and his iconic rendering of melted pocket watches is instantly recognizable to nearly everyone, even those with little or no interest in art. Dalí painted The Persistence of Memory when he was 28. By that time, he was already a well-established member of the Surrealist circle, having moved to their base of operation in Paris five years earlier. His reputation preceded his arrival…
AMC’s (formerly Disney’s) “Nautilus” is nine-tenths fun adventure. We’re talking otherworldly sea creatures, lost treasure, and 1850s technical marvels, portrayed by the best our 2020s studios can offer. The ten-part first season follows Nemo (an appealing Shazad Latif), the Odysseus-esque captain of the first-ever submarine, sharing the show’s title, in this loose adaptation of “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” He’s on an adventure to escape the British East India Mercantile Company that enslaved him and most of his shipmates, in addition to committing a whole host of atrocities. And that’s the other tenth of the show—a clear-eyed portrayal of…
There is a moment in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 dystopian masterpiece “Brazil” where the film stops being dazzling, sets aside the Pythonesque humor, and lets humanity have a moment to itself. The lowly bureaucrat, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), drops off a wrongful arrest refund check to the widow of Archibald Buttle, who was taken from his home by stormtroopers on a peaceful evening. It’s an unbearably awkward moment for Sam, who believes–actually believes–he’s doing the right thing by presenting the check to the widow in person. Mrs. Buttle (Sheila Reid) doesn’t let him off the hook so easily. She rips up…
No one signs up for the Squid Game—contestant or viewer alike—expecting to have a good time. Netflix’s smash-hit Korean thriller series was a massive, massive hit in its first season, partly due to its uncompromising (but hardly subtle) exploration of the vagaries of late-stage capitalism, literalizing the rat race we must all suffer through a series of deadly children’s games. The walls may start out pastel, but they run red not too long after the games begin. But off the back of that success, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk returned for a two-season continuation of the series; much like his protagonist, Seong…
A new EU law aimed at preventing the sale of looted antiquities is set to go into effect Saturday. While Regulation 2019/880 has a partial exemption for temporary exhibitions, the law may still hamper loans from private collectors, according to a new report from the Art Newspaper. The new law, first introduced six years ago, stipulates that any party which imports cultural goods from outside the EU will have “heightened due diligence requirements.” Cultural goods refer to fine arts, antiquities, decorative arts, and collectible items. Related Articles An advisory note published by the insurance company Lockton said the law is…
Marcia Resnick, a photographer known for her stylized portraits of musicians, artists, and underground figures in 1970s and early ’80s Manhattan, died on June 19th in New York. She was 74. Her sister told The Washington Post that the cause of death was lung cancer. A keen documenter of New York’s downtown demimonde, Resnick created some of the last studio photographs of actor John Belushi before his fatal overdose in 1982. Her muses also included now-legendary figures such as Joey Ramone, Mick Jagger, and Debbie Harry. She brought a conceptual art background and ironic lens to the punk-inflected nightlife at…
ArtMaxwell RabbPortrait of Ralph Iwamoto. Courtesy of Hollis Taggart.Before Sol Lewitt became a household name, he was a guard at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). So was Ralph Iwamoto. In the late 1950s, the museum’s staff included a cluster of artists who would go on to become stars: Lewitt, Dan Flavin, Robert Mangold, and Robert Ryman. Iwamoto was right there with them, sharing ideas and steadily building a visual language of his own. And yet, while their names were canonized, his slipped from public view.That has started to change. In recent years, Iwamoto’s story has begun to reach wider…
