Email Author Andrew Schenker

2011 Stories by Andrew Schenker

• A Slow Journey Into Banal Observation in Two Gates of Sleep

  published March 30, 2011

  Recalling both the process-oriented cinema of Lisandro Alonso (minus the precise attention to detail) and Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying... More >>

• Reimagining the Apocalypse in One Hundred Mornings

  published March 23, 2011

  In One Hundred Mornings, the apocalypse is not imagined as burned-out landscapes or cities being blown to bits, but simply as two young... More >>

• 0s & 1s Goes Beyond the Obvious Points About Cyber-Dependence

  published March 16, 2011

  While the throngs of recent films detailing our culture’s inundation with social media are generally content to make their obvious points... More >>

• Seniors Get Down to 'Pump Up the Jam' in The Over the Hill Band

  published February 23, 2011

  Music uniting the generations is the hoary premise behind Geoffrey Enthoven’s The Over the Hill Band, in which recently widowed... More >>

• Historical Recovery in a Spanish Village in The Sky Turns

  published February 9, 2011

  An award winner at Rotterdam way back in 2005, Mercedes Álvarez’s The Sky Turns, a film that aims to both fix and... More >>

• Just Go With It: Adam Sandler's Latest Hits and Misses in Equal Parts

  published February 9, 2011

  Just Go With It, Adam Sandler’s latest turn as a redeemable cad, casts the Grown Ups star as Danny Maccabee, a Beverly Hills... More >>

• Glenn Close Recounts Humanity's Crimes Against the Planet in Home

  published February 2, 2011

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Home is an urgent jeremiad decrying man’s plundering of the earth’s natural resources. Or so... More >>

• In Twelve Thirty, Talking and Fucking and Talking Some More

  published January 12, 2011

  In Twelve Thirty, getting fucked by a bright-eyed college kid proves a bonding experience for one Iowa family. In the aftermath of three... More >>