Steve Erickson

Risk Wrestles With the Dark Truth of Julian Assange

Steve EricksonMay 3, 2017

Laura Poitras' documentary is indirectly devoted to exploring the abusive sexual actions of men like Julian Assange and, to a lesser extent, encryption advocate Jacob Appelbaum....

Pedro Almodóvar on Why the World Is So Awful (and How His New Comedy Can Help)

Steve EricksonJune 27, 2013

"The whole world has changed for the worse," Pedro Almodóvar says, a sentiment that's apparent in his latest comedy, I'm So Excited! The film is reminiscent of another time, one the director admits he feels some yearning for: the 1980s, and, more specifically, Almodóvar's films from that era. "The thing......

If You Think Stanley Kubrick Faked the Moon Landing, or Even if You Don't, You'll Love Room 237

Steve EricksonApril 4, 2013

Here's the kind of theory that the five interviewees in Rodney Ascher's Room 237 have come up with about Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: One believes that it's an allegory about the genocide of Native Americans. Another that it's instead about the Holocaust. Or that it's Kubrick's coded confession that he......

Director Leos Carax on His New Film Holy Motors

Steve EricksonNovember 15, 2012

"This film was born out of the rage of not being able to make other projects," Léos Carax says of Holy Motors, an anomaly in the French director's oeuvre, as its production was relatively stress-free. Speaking at a hotel bar in New York, Carax says, "It was imagined very quickly,......

An Interview With Alex Ross Perry, Writer, Director, Star of The Color Wheel

Steve EricksonJune 7, 2012

Alex Ross Perry doesn't lack ambition. The Brooklyn-based director's first film, Impolex, riffed on Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. His second film, The Color Wheel, which opens Friday for a weeklong run at the Downtown Indie, mashes up Philip Roth novels and iconic '70s road movies. A hard-core cinephile who......

George Bush and the Treacherous Country

Steve EricksonFebruary 12, 2004

Illustration by Ryan Ward I am a traitor. I’m not sure exactly when I first knew it. Of course for a long time I resisted it; I had always thought of myself as a patriot. But sometime over the last 15 years I came to sense it, and certainly I......

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Steve Erickson

Risk Wrestles With the Dark Truth of Julian Assange

Pedro Almodóvar on Why the World Is So Awful (and How His New Comedy Can Help)

If You Think Stanley Kubrick Faked the Moon Landing, or Even if You Don't, You'll Love Room 237

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George Bush and the Treacherous Country

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