Adam Nayman

1 day ago | bfi.org.uk | Tara Judah |Adam Nayman |Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold

The Encampments uses the natural momentum of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University in New York as its structural spine. What began with 50 students pitching tents in the campus’s designated protest zone soon became a national and international movement of students occupying campus lawns, demanding university administrations divest from Israel and weapons manufacturing.

1 day ago | bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman |Tara Judah |Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold

“Fight like a girl,” the heroine of Ballerina is instructed. Apparently, taken to its logical conclusion (to the extent that any movie set in the John Wick universe can be said to have a logical conclusion) this imperative means duelling with flamethrowers and using ice skates like bayonets, impressively inventive bits of carnage in a movie whose body count is in triple digits before the end of the first act.

1 week ago | thewalrus.ca | Adam Nayman

There are plenty of A-listers with authentic pilot licences: Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Tom Cruise. None of them, however, has ever flown a commercial airliner filled with civilians under the steady, real-time gaze of GoPro cameras mounted around the cockpit. Advantage: Nathan Fielder, the Canadian-born comedian turned conceptual stuntman, whose documentary series The Rehearsal is basically an elaborately subsidized prime-time psy-op.

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Adam Nayman

Game recognizes game: Martin Scorsese once called Jia Zhangke’s body of work “the finest, toughest, most vitally alive work in modern moviemaking.” It’s a high compliment, but Jia’s cinema—not only tough, fine, and vital, but slippery, sophisticated, and ambitious, matching form to function and reach to grasp—measures up.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Adam Nayman

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