Jarrod Jones
Film and TV Critic at Freelance
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Braving the gauntlet of tentpole events, off-the-radar releases, and a non-stop avalanche of movies, TV, comics, and other stuff that's bad for you is DoomRocket's HOT PRESS. This week: A horror movie from Michael Patrick Jann, two comic debuts, and a look at Nic Klein’s recent cover work.
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WHAT MARIELLE KNOWSThere's something perversely karmic about slapping someone for spitting out an ugly truth (as they see it), only to knock something loose in their wiring that forces them to confront a few ugly truths of their own. That's precisely what happens to young Marielle (Laeni Geiseler) in Frédéric Hambalek's What Marielle Knows, an acidic melodrama where honesty is less a virtue than a bludgeon.
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The painter Joe Coleman is famous (or infamous) for his collisions of the tragic, vicious, grotesque, and divine, his ornate and startling work occupying that volatile space where the sacred collides with the profane. HowDarkMyLove, Scott Gracheff's tender and absorbing documentary, doesn't so much profile Coleman as it basks in his brilliance, capturing his compulsions, his craft, and, crucially, his ecstatic devotion to Whitney Ward: dominatrix, photographer, muse, and wife.
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MAINTENANCE ARTISTIt takes a certain confidence to approach a crew of New York City sanitation workers at dawn and tell them you're an artist who believes their labor is a form of expression, but that's exactly what Mierle Laderman Ukeles did one morning in 1979. No surprise, her pitch — to show New York what life looks like from the perspective of "the people that keep it alive every single day" — was met with bleary stares.
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DOG OF GODThe animated film DogofGod, much like the Oscar-winning Flow before it, feels like a curio from Latvia that may one day slip the bonds of the festival circuit to achieve a higher cultural status. That status will undoubtedly be of the cult variety; unlike Flow, it doesn't have childlike wonder working in its favor but rather something more bawdy, visceral, and elusive.
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RT @jarrodjones_: my latest Tribeca dispatch covers a gnarly animated film out of Latvia (DOG OF GOD), a gripping Australian prison story w…
"'[Lucía Garibaldi's] A Bright Future has a shoestring sci-fi aesthetic that conveys containment economically and poignantly, [with] playful compositions that flirt with the meticulousness of Wes Anderson on a municipal budget." https://t.co/4vEJ0Dzpv9 @Tribeca https://t.co/Bk7wxfOjX3
"Underland, Robert Petit's gorgeous and perilously photographed documentary, is a deceptively simple excavation of human curiosity... Its descent is both literal and mythic, philosophical and physical." https://t.co/4vEJ0Dzpv9 @Tribeca https://t.co/NGqe3A8O8u