Danny Ramirez is speaking up about the abrupt and “disappointing” exit of Joaquin Phoenix from Todd Haynes’ planned queer romance movie. It was announced in September of 2023 that Haynes (the director behind Carol and May December) was making a “sexually explicit movie” about two men in love. Along with Ramirez, Phoenix had also been … Read more
Moore’s third character with Haynes, Gracie Atherton-Yoo exists more in a day-to-day stasis than anything resembling Cathy Whitaker’s hope. Neither a victim of the conservatism of her time like Cathy nor an avatar for contagion anxieties like Carol White, the lynchpin of “May December” is the constructor of her doomed fate. After her criminal affair … Read more
Ryosuke Hamaguchi’s provocatively titled “Evil Does Not Exist” (102 minutes) taught me a word I’d never heard before: glamping. I don’t know if the term really exists in present-day Japan or if Hamaguchi made it up for his film, but it’s a contraction of “glamorous camping,” a practice whereby wealthy urbanites go to the country … Read more