Sunday, December 23, 2007

New Yorker Review of There Will be Blood.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/12/17/071217crci_cinema_denby

It's interesting how the movie adaptation, a loose one, focuses on character -- and it's disintegration, and "loses" the socialist literalism of Upton Sinclair's original.

The director and the actor revealed very little plot, but analysed character a lot in a recent interview with Charlie Rose.

I haven't seen the film yet, but think the screenplay -- leaked by Paramount, is masterful.

Kyi May Kaung.

Gagosian--Jason Stanley's essay on the art of Titus Kaphar.

https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2026/01/28/essay-titus-kaphar-undoing-myths/?utm_source=Gagosian&utm_campaign=0f20f9f535-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2...