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Documentary Unbound: Gardner’s Camera
42 minutes ago | Keyframe | See recent Keyframe news »
No one can blame a critic for trying to identify an artist’s precursors, but all too often the taxonomical impulse obscures the complexities of influence: a moment’s reflection tells us that one’s relationship with a mentor, like that with a parent, is never simple. The anthropological filmmaker Robert Gardner, who died last month at the age of eighty-eight, makes for an especially interesting case in point. Many of Gardner’s defenders would have us believe that the problematic aspects of his ethnographic films can be cleanly separated from his poetic sensitivity to pattern, texture, and metaphor. But even if this critical operation were possible—and I doubt that it is—it’s worth wondering if it isn’t precisely the inextricability of these attributes that accounts for Gardner’s relevance. »
Recap: 'The Leftovers,' Season 1, Episode 7 'Solace For Tired Feet'
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"I think I might be going crazy," Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) tells his new girlfriend Nora Durst (Carrie Coon) toward the end of "Solace For Tired Feet," and it's a realization that's been a long time coming. Suffering from bad dreams, lost time and sometimes unable to tell reality from the fevered images conjured by his brain, Kevin has somehow managed to keep it together, as much as possible. Even in the face of divorce, and losing a grip on his daughter, who continues to put her life on the line for thrills with her envelope pushing friends. And kicking off this week's episode, Jill (Margaret Qualley) is once again testing her limits, stuffing herself inside an abandoned refrigerator in the forest where a local boy once lost his life. She's looking to break the record for how long she can stay in there without losing her breath, and breaks it handily, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
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