Melissa Anderson
Film Editor and Writer at 4Columns
Film editor and writer, @4_columns. Author of Inland Empire from @firefliespress and The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012–2024, forthcoming from @TheFilmDesk.
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Christiane F. Melissa Anderson Drugs, desperation, degradation, David Bowie: Uli Edel’s 1981 cult film portrays the downward spiral of a young girl who falls in with teenage street addicts in West Berlin. Natja Brunckhorst as Christiane in Christiane F. Courtesy Janus Films.
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Materialists Melissa Anderson A matchmaker girl living in a matrimonial world: Celine Song’s forgettable new rom-com. Dakota Johnson as Lucy and Pedro Pascal as Harry in Materialists. Courtesy A24. Photo: Atsushi Nishijima. Materialists, written and directed by Celine Song, now in theaters• • •“The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life,” declares Edith Massey’s Aunt Ida—horrified to learn that her nephew is about to marry a woman—in John Waters’s Female Trouble (1974).
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It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Society in Which He Lives Melissa Anderson In Rosa von Praunheim’s 1971 insurrectionist cine-essay, an early—and ever-pertinent—excoriation of homonormativity. Beryt Bohlen as Clemens and Bernd Feuerhelm as Daniel in It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Society in Which He Lives. Courtesy Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion.
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Love Melissa Anderson Lust for listening: Dag Johan Haugerud’s latest film demonstrates the amorous potency of attentive conversation. Andrea Bræin Hovig as Marianne and Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen as Tor in Love. Courtesy CMPR. © Motlys K1. Love, written and directed by Dag Johan Haugerud, now playing at Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, New York City• • •In amorous matters, the most important organ is the tongue; the most significant orifice, the ear.
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2 months ago |
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The Shrouds Melissa Anderson Memento mori, memento amori: in David Cronenberg’s latest, a bereft widower mourns his dead wife with an invention that enables the monitoring of her decaying body. Vincent Cassel as Karsh and Diane Kruger as Terry in The Shrouds. Courtesy Sideshow and Janus Films.
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