Our institutions are at best indifferent, and more often actively complicit, in the mass death of human beings. Motivating that cruelty is the pursuit of wealth, the perpetuation of capitalism, “the rich are scared we’ll dig into the evil way they make money.”
Standing in the face of that inhumanity is Nan Goldin, whose art and activism equally draw attention to indescribable suffering and get suppressed by larger forces. At the same time, they each deeply humanize and destigmatize a…
I think I mostly enjoyed the story it was trying to tell, but its disparate elements are kind of sloppily put together, so I had a hard time ever locking into it
"You know, when people talk about why was the New York City Ballet so great? Well, I mean, it was because Aroldingen, Jerry Robbins, and people like that, but also that audience was so - I can't even think of the word. I mean, if Suzanne Farrell went like this instead of like this, that was it! Oh, she might as well just kill herself! There would be like a billion people who knew exactly every single thing. There was…
I’ve been watching a lot of Buster Keaton shorts recently and I can’t help but think he’d love all the stunts, especially every time John Wick or someone else falls from an incredible height.
