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LESLIE JAMISON AND MAGGIE NELSON AT SKYLIGHT

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This weekend at Skylight, Leslie Jamison and Maggie Nelson will discuss THE RECOVERING, Jamison’s acclaimed examination of alcoholism—her own, and that of writers such as Jean Rhys, Charles Jackson (Lost Weekend), John Berryman, Raymond Carver, and Denis Johnson.

 

LESLIE JAMISON and MAGGIE NELSON, Sunday, April 15, at 5 pm.

SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles.

skylightbooks.com/leslie-jamison-maggie-nelson

Jamison interviewed by Chris Kraus in Paris Review:

theparisreview.org/interview-with-leslie-jamison

Kraus interviewed by Jamison in Interview:

interviewmagazine.com/chris-kraus

Jamison’s Literary Hub interview with Kristen Martin:

lithub.com/interrogating-sentimentality-with-leslie-jamison

 

Leslie Jamison.

EZRA MILLER

Erykah Badu: “We’re in an industry that thrives on power and enthusiasm and outgoingness. How do you find the silence underneath it all?”

Ezra Miller: “It’s such a dangerous thing, isn’t it? To endeavor to be a reflective surface. I think that artists don’t make art—the art makes itself through us. I’m not the doer, you know? I’m just along for the ride…

“Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities.”

Interview, November 2017, 73.

Ezra Miller in Another Happy Day, directed by Sam Levinson (2011).

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AGNÈS VARDA IN CALIFORNIA AND TORONTO

Agnès Varda’s film LIONS LOVE (… AND LIES)—shot in 1968 in the days preceding and following the shootings of Andy Warhol (who survived) and Bobby Kennedy (who didn’t)—is a story of Eden-under-siege among a trio of Hollywood Hills freedom-seekers, remarkably played by Warhol superstar Viva, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni (the lyricists of Hair).

“[Varda’s] film is more than a time capsule of events and moods—it’s a living aesthetic model for revolutionary times.” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker*

LIONS LOVE (… AND LIES) is part of the Criterion Collection box AGNÈS VARDA IN CALIFORNIA (which also includes BLACK PANTHERS and DOCUMENTEUR), available now.

See Sasha Archibald, “End of the End of the End: Agnès Varda in Los Angeles”:

eastofborneo.org/articles/end-of-the-end-of-the-end-agnes-varda-in-los-angeles/

criterion.com/boxsets/1124-eclipse-series-43-agnes-varda-in-california

* newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/lions-love-and-lies

This week in Toronto, Varda and her new collaborator, the French street artist JR, present their film VISAGES VILLAGES/FACES PLACES, wherein they roam the countryside in JR’s truck, encountering farmers, cheese makers, coal miners—the faces of whom JR memorializes in huge monochromatic portraits. Their journey eventually lands them at the door of Jean-Luc Godard.

VISAGES VILLAGES/FACES PLACES, Monday, September 11; Wednesday, September 13; Friday, September 15; and Sunday, September 17.

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

tiff.net/tiff/faces-places/

Film Comment interview with Varda is the cover story in the current issue.

AGNÈS VARDA—THE FILM COMMENT INTERVIEW, September/October 2017 issue.

www.filmcomment.com/

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Agnès Varda and JR. Visages Villages/Faces Places (2016). Image credit: Le Pacte.

Gerome Ragni, Viva, and James Rado in Lions Loves… (and Lies), (1969). Image credit: Criterion.

Film Comment, September/October 2017 issue. Image credit: Film Comment.

The first issue of Interview, with Varda (center) and the cast of Lions Loves… (and Lies).

Agnès Varda et JR sur le tournage de "Visages, villages".

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