Rod Bastanmehr is a freelance writer and editor, with a background in and fascination with the intersection between art, media and culture. His work has appeared in VICE, Noisey, The Moving Arts Film Journal, Medium, Nerve, Salon and more. He is the managing editor of art quarterly NoTofu. He currently resides in New York City. Follow him on twitter @rodb.
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Life Bears Bitter But Glorious Fruit in ‘Tangerine’
Scorched in the uneasy hue of the early morning and approaching nightfall, the tangerine of the film’s title is something that lingers but never leers. Los Angeles has never felt so claustrophobic and sprawling at... -
An Experiment in Time — Call It Womanhood in ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’
If film is an art dedicated to exploring the passing of time, perhaps its most intimate experiment is what it does for the people on screen. In Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, time is both catalyst and... -
‘The Lizzie Borden Chronicles’ Camps Out At the Scene of the Crime
Christina Ricci has made a career out of playing disgruntled girls with an implied darkness and a wit about two years too old. All that culminated rather flawlessly in 2014’s Lizzie Borden Took An Ax, Lifetime’s... -
Sex Is In the Air, And ‘It Follows’ You Home
Horror films have always largely been about two things -- fear and sex. The larger statement to be made, surely, is that the act of getting scared is a similar sensation to that of pleasure, much the same way that the...
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