Perhaps more than anything, Atom Egoyan’s Remember is a visual thrift shop of bespoke signs and symbols from film and pulp-fiction lore. A letter, delivered clandestinely, containing dangerous instructions. A mysterious train ticket and a cache of money. A Glock 9-mm. revolver. Nazi paraphernalia. At least one, if not many, stolen identities. A quest to uncover the truth. … [Read more...]
‘Citizenfour’: Chilling and important, but shapeless
Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour, about the revelations of Edward Snowden and her involvement in them, is a vital historical document. With the bulk of the film taking place in Hong Kong, where Poitras and Glenn Greenwald interviewed Snowden for a little more than a week in the summer of 2013, Citizenfour is a careful account of spy-novel-style machinations, journalistic ethics, and … [Read more...]