A seminal entry in the sub-genre of ugly things happening to beautiful people in beautiful places, Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” is…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in Manhattan with his family. In addition to film criticism, he writes short fiction. Kevin's main area of interest is misunderstood older films, which he prefers to watch either at NYC's Film Forum or on DVD at home.
During one of the more predictable sequences of drunken meandering and wanton womanizing in Marco Ferreri’s “Tales of Ordinary Madness”…
To prepare for Ari Aster’s “Beau is Afraid” (2023), I watched Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” (2008) for the first time…
“Jake says, ‘You dumb f–ck,’ and Joey says, ‘You dumb f–ck,” and they repeat it and repeat it. And I…
To be a Bob Fosse heroine is a tough gig, if you got it. Shirley MacLaine’s ‘Charity’ is a bleeding-heart…
The curtains dropped on the 95th Academy Awards just in time to watch the end of the Knicks/Lakers game. And…
With the 95th Academy Awards only days away, the biggest mystery might be how many Oscars “Everything Everywhere All at…
In December 2022, ‘Sight & Sound’ released its once-a-decade ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ ranking. This was the year the…
In December 2022, Sight & Sound released its once-a-decade ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ ranking. This was the year the…
The shape-shifting commercial smash “Everything Everywhere All At Once” leads the upcoming Oscars with 11 nominations, including one for ‘Best…