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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Howard Hampton

Blank Generation

By Howard Hampton
May 3, 2017
In Bertrand Bonello’s perfectly unsettling Paris-set thriller Nocturama, young terrorists find that the forces of destruction and consumption hold equal power

Everybody Must Get Stoned

By Howard Hampton
November 3, 2014
The Rainy Day Women (and Men) of Inherent Vice

Review: Level Five

By Howard Hampton
August 26, 2014
(Chris Marker, France, 1996)

The Marital Arts

By Howard Hampton
June 30, 2014
To have, hold, and terrorize in Tom Noonan’s dinner-guest psychodrama The Wife

Stories We’re Told

By Howard Hampton
August 26, 2013
On being born under a Hollywood sign

Into the Morass

By Howard Hampton
July 1, 2013
Bette Davis, King Vidor, and the black hole of Beyond the Forest

Chris Marker: Remembrance of Revolutions Past

By Howard Hampton
July 30, 2012
Chris Marker’s anatomies of melancholy

Sound: demonlover

By Howard Hampton
June 1, 2011
Sonic Youth's epic soundtrack to Olivier Assayas's thriller demonlover exposed

Review: Clean

By Howard Hampton
June 1, 2011
(Olivier Assayas, France/Canada/U.K., 2004)