Email Author Aaron Hillis

2012 Stories by Aaron Hillis

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  Holiday Guide: Arts Listings

  published November 21, 2012

  MUSIC Edited by Seth Colter Walls Dinosaur Jr. December 1 You might call any album other than... More >>

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  Holiday Guide: Sacha Gervasi on Mr. and Mrs. Hitch

  published November 21, 2012

  Beyond his droll persona and unparalleled legacy in cinema, Sir Alfred Hitchcock was also a man of mystery in keeping his personal life as... More >>

• Fall Arts Guide 2012: Film

  published September 5, 2012

  'Giallo Fever!' September 20–30 Pulpy, stylish, and often erotically charged, the blood-soaked Italian thrillers... More >>

• Fall Arts Guide 2012: Andrea Arnold Adapts Wuthering Heights

  published September 5, 2012

  Literary one-hit wonder Emily Brontë's doomed-love classic Wuthering Heights has been adapted countless times—by William... More >>

• Neil Young and Jonathan Demme's Ragged Glories

  published June 27, 2012

  Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there's... More >>

• Summer Film Guide: Rooftop Films and Spaghetti Westerns

  published May 23, 2012

  BAMcinemaFest June 20 through July 1 An undeniably essential collection of emerging indie talent (as recently vetted by... More >>

• Safe

  published April 25, 2012

  The pulpy scenarios change, but squinty action hero Jason Statham remains chiseled, coiled, and ready to hurl himself into scores of grimacing... More >>

• Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day

  published April 11, 2012

  Although executive produced by T.D. Jakes, the publicity-savvy televangelist who conceived and costarred in 2004's Woman Thou Art Loosed... More >>

• Spring Guide 2012: The Stabbin' Cabin

  published March 28, 2012

  The title is the setup, and nobody in this van ride to oblivion has ever seen a pimple in his or her life: There's the jock, the slutty one,... More >>

• An Encounter With Simone Weil

  published March 21, 2012

  In the abbreviated life of French philosopher and sociopolitical activist Simone Weil (1909–1943), the daughter of agnostic Jews went to... More >>

• Gerhard Richter Painting

  published March 14, 2012

  Countless documentaries have feebly attempted to probe and illuminate the creative process (the phrase "dancing about architecture" springs to... More >>

• Awesome Movie, Great Job: In Brooklyn With Sorta-Comedians Tim and Eric

  published February 22, 2012

  Watch any 11-minute episode of Adult Swim's warped, experimental sketch series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and then try to... More >>

• The Fairy

  published February 22, 2012

  Since their irresistibly madcap 2005 debut, Iceberg, Belgium-based filmmakers, actors, and former clowns Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon,... More >>

• The Secret World of Arrietty

  published February 15, 2012

  Synonymous with the humanistic, eco-minded, pastel-hued elegance of Japanese filmmaker and animation virtuoso Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited... More >>

• Cirkus Columbia

  published February 15, 2012

  In small-town southern Herzegovina circa 1992—on the eve of the bloody war in the Balkans—middle-age former villager Divko (Miki... More >>

• Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus

  published February 8, 2012

  Ideal only for the junior-high classroom, Holly Mosher's dull-as-dishwater doc fudges the line between socially progressive message-spreading... More >>

• Private Romeo

  published February 8, 2012

  Although there was a time when only men were allowed to perform Shakespeare, writer-director Alan Brown's queer, all-male riff on Romeo and... More >>

• LMFAO I Can Move Shit with My Mind: Teens with Superpowers in Chronicle

  published February 1, 2012

  In our status-updated, YouTubed, and retweeted age of self-documentation, does the “faux-found-footage” genre—popularized by... More >>

• After Fall, Winter

  published January 25, 2012

  Once nominated for Gawker's "Douche of the Decade," filmmaker-actor Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell) casts himself yet again as an... More >>