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RIGID, ASHEN, AND CAMOUFLAGED against backgrounds intricately rendered in fifty shades of greige, characters throughout Roy Andersson’s 2014 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence repeat the line “I’m happy to hear you’re doing fine.” Paired with the likes of a tortured, electrode-bound lab monkey and a man in an office on the brink of suicide—not to mention the entire film’s haunting by one Boschian vision of colonial terror—this recurring utterance becomes a searingly...

Photo: DAVID DEVLIN/NETFLIX © 2021 It’s finally May. The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, and the full brunt of the Summer movie season is primed to descend upon us like a mighty avalanche of cinema. There are a ton of new films premiering exclusively in theaters this month, including this weekend’s Wrath of Man (which won’t be on demand), as the country continues to vaccinate and multiplexes reopen with varying safety standards. Still, there are plenty of great new movies premier...

Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman once described Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson as a “slapstick Ingmar Bergman,” which is as apt a designation as any. Both artists lay bare the plights of anguished souls in existential crisis, but Andersson’s view of the prosaic absurdity of the human condition is often tempered with humor that almost, but not quite, softens the blow. Black humor, perhaps, but I prefer playwright Eugène Ionesco’s term “tragic farce.” Andersson’s films – A...

Movies Are Back: About Endlessness Armond White About Endlessness ( Om det oandliga), finally opens in the U.S. after a long COVID-lockdown delay, and it gives every reason — touches every emotion we expect — when going to the movies. A Hollywood distributor would have insisted on selling a sexier title, but Andersson, the Swedish master of single-take theatricals, doesn’t deserve vulgarization. In 75 concise minutes (as long as any movie needs to be), About Endlessness i...

Reviews From The First Livable Planet Film Festival by Peter Wong on May 4, 2021 About Endlessness opens with the visual of a couple (Jan-Eje Ferling and Tatiana Delaunay) floating through gray, cloudy skies. Magnolia Pictures Milan Radisics’ short cinema essay “The Art Of Pollution” takes viewers on an aerial tour of lands colored in sha...

Print Fragments of existence build the absurdist tableaux of esteemed Swedish director Roy Andersson. Each stand-alone vignette in his features over the last two decades evolved from impressions that kindled an emotion within him. Their origin varies. Some reconceptualize scenarios he’s witnessed, while others take cues from fine art. Via their incisive slant, Andersson winks at the tragedy of mankind, the cruel and preposterous causes for our anguish, the fleeting moments of joy, the evil we...

With theaters starting to reopen, the movie business started looking up. From an English-language Almodóvar movie to a new cut of a years-old superhero movie, Vulture’s film critics celebrate the great cinema hits of 2021.

For Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, there is immortality in art Carlos Aguilar © (Magnolia Pictures) A scene from the movie "About Endlessness." (Magnolia Pictures) Fragments of existence build the absurdist tableaux of esteemed Swedish director Roy Andersson. Each stand-alone vignette in his features over the last two decades evolved from impressions that kindled an emotion within him. Their origin varies. Some reconceptualize scenarios he’s witnessed, while others take c...

The week’s new Netflix, Amazon, and rental releases are here. This week, there’s Michael B. Jordan spy action thriller Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse on Amazon Prime Video, The Mitchells vs. the Machines on Netflix, The Outside Story, Voyagers, and more; all available to stream starting today.

And unlike its predecessor, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, it never quite takes flight