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Mark Asch

Mark Asch is the author of the New York Movies volume of the Close-ups series of film books, and a contributor to Film Comment, Nylon, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere.

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Riff on One Thousand and One Nights Longs for a Bygone Era of Filmmaking

by Mark Asch August 22, 2022August 22, 2022

Alternating between charmingly and cringingly unfashionable, George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing defies some orientalist tropes while falling prey to others.

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When You Could Get a Three-Course Meal and Coffee for 25 Cents in New York

by Mark Asch February 28, 2022March 14, 2022

Lisa Hurwitz’s documentary finds some impressive interviewees, including Mel Brooks and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to remember the bygone vending machine restaurant chain Horn & Hardart.

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Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Ode to the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s

by Mark Asch November 29, 2021November 30, 2021

Stoner jokes, unexpected pop culture references, and an unlikely love story jangle against each other like charms on a bracelet.

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In Neelon Crawford’s “Moving Paintings,” the Natural and Manmade Face Off

by Mark Asch November 22, 2021November 22, 2021

MoMA’s exhibition Neelon Crawford: Filmmaker is a retrospective of his experimental work documenting machinery, travels in South America, and more.

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“Don’t Fuck With the Jews” and Other Moments of Muscular Judaism on Film

by Mark Asch June 21, 2021December 30, 2021

Cinema’s thorny depictions of Israeli military action reflects the swift shift in Jewish identity around questions of oppression.

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Martin Scorsese’s Portrait of New York With the Ultimate New Yorker

by Mark Asch January 28, 2021January 27, 2021

In the docuseries Pretend It’s a City, cultural commentator Fran Lebowitz leads a talking tour of the city.

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The Complicated Personas of Mozart, Rock Hudson, and Jean Seberg

by Mark Asch February 7, 2020February 6, 2020

A new retrospective at Anthology Film Archives presents the work of pioneering independent director and film essayist Mark Rappaport.

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Invisible Life Reveals the Lush Inner Lives of Two Sisters Torn Apart by Tradition

by Mark Asch December 19, 2019December 18, 2019

Adapted from Martha Batalha’s novel, Karim Aïnouz’s latest tells the twinned stories of sisters Eurídice and Guida by exploring the pocket of time in their lives before they stopped waiting on their dreams.

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Joker Is a Thinly Veiled (and Thin) Take on ’80s NYC

by Mark Asch October 18, 2019November 4, 2019

The film is far too derivative, far too wedded to juvenile mythology, and far too tentative to deserve its elevated profile.

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