Ariel LeBeau

4 days ago | letterboxd.com | Ariel LeBeau |Brian Formo |Gemma Gracewood |May December

If Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and 2001: A Space Odyssey had a baby, it would be Todd Haynes’ Safe. The writer-director’s sophomore feature, which was theatrically released 30 years ago this week, combines the radical banality of Chantal Akerman’s slow cinema masterwork with the cold, futuristic austerity of Stanley Kubrick’s interstellar epic into its own vision of spiritual malady that feels as audacious, haunting and timeless as the two classics that influenced it.

Jan 13, 2025 | i-d.co | Ariel LeBeau

Watching coverage of last summer’s MTV VMAs, it was depressing to see how many emerging stars showed up in outfits that ostensibly paid homage to pop icons, but said so little about themselves.

Nov 18, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Ariel LeBeau |Mia Lee Vicino |Love Streams

Early on in A Woman Under the Influence, Gena Rowlands’ Mabel Longhetti sputters and grimaces as she impatiently urges her mother out the door to take her children off to school. No more than two minutes after they’ve left, she peers out the window with anticipation. “Boy, I can’t wait for the kids to come home,” she sighs.

May 22, 2024 | gq.com | Ariel LeBeau

A little more than an hour into the first screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s hotly-anticipated Megalopolis at the 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival, a production crew member suddenly crosses the auditorium stage with a microphone and flashlight in hand. He halts at stage right, turns his back towards the audience, and speaks into the microphone as if addressing Adam Driver, who appears on screen, looking into the lens.

May 3, 2024 | gq.com | Ariel LeBeau

Jane Schoenbrun was born to make cult classics. After generating buzz with their 2021 Sundance breakout We’re All Going to the World’s Fair– an eerie microbudget gem inspired by shadowy Internet enclaves– the writer/director follows it up this week with I Saw The TV Glow, another mystifying, atmospheric coming-of-age story made to resonate with a very specific audience.