Nick Pinkerton
Weird and Wonderful
Nick Pinkerton at the 15th Maryland Film Festival
May 2013
“THEY HAVE THAT SAYING ‘Keep Austin Weird’—and Austin’s great, but people move to Austin to be weird. It’s just something in the water here.” This was comedian “Bobcat” Goldthwait, introducing his fifth film, Willow Creek,… READ ON
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Columbia Pictures
Nick Pinkerton at the tenth True/False Film Fest
March 2013
“IT’S ALMOST LIKE everyone you see on the street is in a contest to see who can be more positive, who can smile the biggest,” said a director, visiting from a grimmer part of the world, who was introducing his film at the True/False … READ ON
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Fast, Cheap, and Under Control
Nick Pinkerton on “Girls, Guns & Ghosts” at Japan Society
February 2013
THE MIDCENTURY JAPANESE avant-garde is an undeniable presence in New York City right now. The Museum of Modern Art’s “Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde” show, in conjunction with a film program on “Art Theater Guild and Japanese … READ ON
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Messy and Vital
Nick Pinkerton on the films of Michael Glawogger
April 2012
“THE ABSURD IS THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF ALL MANKIND,” says a man who identifies himself as SuperBarrio Gomez, declaiming to the slums of Mexico City while wearing the flamboyant uniform of a masked lucha libre wrestler, as though to … READ ON