Chris Barsanti

Saint Paul

Freelance Writer, Editor, and Consultant at Freelance

Senior Consultant at Korn Ferry

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‘Drop Dead City’ Finds New York’s Soul at Its Lowest » PopMatters

2 weeks ago | popmatters.com | Chris Barsanti

Drop Dead City Pangloss Some might think we have had enough documentaries about New York City in the mid-to-late 1970s. These people can be described as misinformed, misled, or simply missing the point. There is a good reason filmmakers continue to produce documentaries about this period, and will likely do so as long as the form exists, as they do again with Drop Dead City.
New graphic novels dig into 'Peanuts,' Jane Austen and Wisconsin ginseng farmers

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Chris Barsanti

Four new graphic novels cover a gamut of subjects, from a serious-minded study of Charles M. Schulz's artistic legacy to the quiet, creatively turbulent life of Jane Austen and a pair of memoirs, one about a trauma-haunted love life and the other about growing up in Wisconsin's ginseng capital. Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts Has any comic artist besides Charles M.
‘Warfare’ Tells a Brutally Universal Story Through a Narrow Lens » PopMatters

4 weeks ago | popmatters.com | Chris Barsanti

Warfare A24 A tight and terrifying docudrama combat procedural, Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s Warfare tracks just one engagement in the Iraq War. The firefight was unremarkable enough to have almost certainly been forgotten by anybody not there. For the soldiers and civilians involved, however, it was likely a singular moment of their lives. Mendoza and Garland do nothing to burden their story with external meaning.
‘Death of a Unicorn’ Substitutes Hot Splatter with Soft Satire » PopMatters

1 month ago | popmatters.com | Chris Barsanti

Death of a Unicorn A24 If you find yourself wondering at any point during Alex Scharfman’s Grand-Guignol fantasy satire Death of a Unicorn, “Wait, how come there are unicorns in the Canadian Rockies which nobody has seen before?” then this is not the film for you. However, if some part of you is thinking, “I hope those vile ultra-wealthy despoilers of all that good and pure get what’s coming to them,” then you are in luck.
Ryan J. Sloan's Spooky Neo-Noir Debut

1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | Chris Barsanti

Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni) spends much of Ryan J. Sloan’s Gazer staring at strangers so she can maintain some grip on reality. Barely hanging on to a poverty-wracked existence, she finds a sense of meaning in creating backstories for those she surveils.
Bob Dylan Film ‘A Complete Unknown’ Is a Folk anti-Western

Feb 5, 2025 | popmatters.com | Chris Barsanti

A Complete Unknown Searchlight Pictures Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) arrives in New York at the start of A Complete Unknown in the back of a station wagon rather than on a horse. He might as well be a gunslinger showing up in a frontier town that needs his help. With just his bindle, guitar, and a cunning up-for-anything look, Dylan scans the Greenwich Village coffeehouse folk scene not like some rube from the sticks but rather a cool operator who knows virgin territory when he sees it.
The Future Isn’t What It Was

Feb 4, 2025 | popmatters.com | Chris Barsanti

A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present Bloomsbury It seems clear that many who argue that authors like H.G. Wells and Jules Verne should be read because of their supposed power of premonition don’t care for science fiction yet feel the urge to find a rationale. The joys of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea come from Captain Nemo’s achingly tragic quest for justice, not Verne’s prediction of electric submarines.
Sundance Film Festival 2025 Is at a Crossroads

Feb 3, 2025 | popmatters.com | Chris Barsanti

Sundance Film Festival 2025 There seemed to be two questions on everyone’s mind at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The first was the same as ever at this festival or any other: “What have you seen?” This question is often academic because there aren’t many available tickets left to get by the time it’s asked – usually by a stranger in line for another film.
'Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)' Review

Feb 2, 2025 | slantmagazine.com | Chris Barsanti

A loving yet tough-minded documentary about the legacy of Sly Stone, Questlove’s Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) has more on its mind than charting the rise and fall of another troubled icon.
Ira Sachs's Intimate Two-Hander

Feb 1, 2025 | slantmagazine.com | Chris Barsanti

Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day is crafted out of just a tiny sliver of a fragment of New York’s mid-1970s culture scene. As part of a larger project, well-connected autofiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend, photographer Peter Hujar, to come by her Yorkville apartment on December 19, 1974 and describe everything he did over the course of one day while she recorded him. Though she meant it to be a larger project, she was never able to make the recording into anything.

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