Email Author Heather Baysa

2013 Stories by Heather Baysa

• Staring into the Screen for One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das

  published May 8, 2013

  In One Track Heart, after reciting a spiritualist maxim about servitude or self-abnegation or the like, Krishna Das has the unfortunate... More >>

• FRANCES ON THE ROOF

  published May 8, 2013

  Save for the unrelenting optimism she always manages to exude, Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha is like a long-limbed self-portrait of every young New... More >>

• PLEASED TO EAT YOU

  published May 1, 2013

  “The mythical lie of Cannibal Ferox was an alibi created to justify the greed and cruelty of the conquistadores,” preaches the young... More >>

• SEEING SILVERMAN

  published April 24, 2013

  For all Sarah Silverman’s jokes about vaginas and poop — her self-proclaimed area of expertise—we love this former bedwetter... More >>

• SHATTERED LENS

  published April 17, 2013

  In 2011, 40-year-old Tim Hetherington was photographing combat in Libya when he was killed alongside fellow photographer Chris Hondros. Known for... More >>

• CORPORATE ROCK

  published April 10, 2013

  Before Don Draper there was Rock Hunter. Granted, Tony Randall’s adman is more 
lovably nebbishy than suave and debonair, but that... More >>

• The Stranger Things People do When They Think They're Alone

  published April 3, 2013

  Ever caught yourself watching a stranger who was oblivious to your eye, and become fixated for so long that the situation began to feel weird,... More >>

• FRESH FRUIT

  published March 27, 2013

  When questioned about the title of Bananas, Woody Allen explained it was 
“because there are no bananas in it.” Allen’s... More >>

• YOU'VE GOT MAIL

  published March 13, 2013

  Nostalgists, brace yourselves. If, like us, you can’t always manage to confine your thoughts to 140 characters, you will be pleased to know... More >>

• VIVA PIERRE CARDIN!

  published March 6, 2013

  Every serious revolutionary has pretty much the same checklist to maintain—the loyalty of the people, a judicious manifesto, and... More >>

• Cuisine d’Amélie

  published March 6, 2013

  Cram any more whimsy into this movie and it would gradually morph into a season of Cirque du Soleil. We often think that Amélie,... More >>

• Ladies' Choice

  published February 27, 2013

  Hey girl. It's not just about pictures of Ryan Gosling with pithy captions superimposed. Feminist porn is much, much more. Sex-positive... More >>

• STOP-N-GO

  published February 20, 2013

  Andy Warhol—the simultaneous father, mother, and weird uncle of every modern-day hipster. His stamp on this city’s culture is as... More >>

• DJANGO UNCHANGED

  published January 30, 2013

  Before Jamie Foxx played a smooth-talking Django fighting for his freedom, Franco Nero was the picture of stoicism. No high horse of morals in... More >>

• REFERENCE POINTE

  published January 30, 2013

  Since her debut in 1978, Karole Armitage has gained a reputation as the “punk ballerina” for a tendency to choreograph classical... More >>

• THE SOCIAL ARTIST

  published January 30, 2013

  Queens native Jesse Eisenberg has had quite the couple of years—from a doubleshot Golden Globe/Oscar nomination for “Best Actor”... More >>

• CARTOON OBSURA

  published January 23, 2013

  You’d be hard-pressed to find any freedom-loving American who’s not a fan of the Saturday-morning cartoon ritual, with its liberal... More >>

• NEW AGE ICARUS

  published January 23, 2013

  The last time we saw Arturo Vidich, he was writhing around in a blood-splattered room full of live rats, prosthetic skin peeling off like an... More >>

• DANCE REVOLUTION

  published January 9, 2013

  Film great Michelangelo Antonioni can be associated with many locales: the dreamy Mediterranean of L’Avventura or the intrusively mod London... More >>

• BAD HABIT

  published January 2, 2013

  Nun Deborah Kerr leads her convent of conspicuously young and gorgeous sisters to a remote Himalayan mountain town. They encounter, of all things,... More >>

• SOMETHING FISHY

  published January 2, 2013

  Writhing around in fish guts is actually no new practice in the world of dance. It originated at Judson Memorial with Carolee Schneemann’s... More >>