The Disaster Artist is a film about a film, a bad one at that—The Room, the cult hit from 2003 that has become a hipster totem of irony over the past 14 years, with makeshift cinemas worldwide charging a few bucks for the apparent joy of collectively mocking someone’s heartfelt, yet terrible, art. (It’s essentially […]
Nathan Fielder
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Atlantic Film Fest: Sunday’s Picks
It may be day of rest for some, but not us! Here are a few picks for Sunday: Atlantic Shorts || (Park Lane 8, 2pm): See our story on Ariella Palka’s short film Burning Rubber, about the connections between rural car culture and contemporary art. Ten points if you spot the arts editor. Love and […]
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Playing the Fielder
Last summer, the producers of This Hour Has 22 Minutes sent the show’s man-on-the-street Nathan Fielder to the US to make a documentary about the presidential election. He got as far as Virginia. And although Love and Cameras in America features a brief encounter between Fielder and then-candidate Barack Obama, the movie has very little […]