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Nick Pinkerton

Bombast: Gone Finching

By Nick Pinkerton
October 10, 2014
Not an open-and-shut case: a forensics report on Gone Girl and its place in David Fincher's oeuvre

Interview: Abel Ferrara

By Nick Pinkerton
October 3, 2014
The director of NYFF selection Pasolini discusses doing justice to the Italian auteur and the responsibilities of a filmmaker

Bombast: Belly

By Nick Pinkerton
September 26, 2014
Big pimpin': on Hype Williams's decadent, decade-defining aesthetics

Bombast: Blitz Package

By Nick Pinkerton
September 17, 2014
Gods and monsters: football players on the field, the big screen, behind the camera, or caught somewhere in-between

Bombast: Zeitgeist

By Nick Pinkerton
September 5, 2014
The daily grind: a consideration of David Bordwell's arguments about reviewing and criticism

Bombast: Kim’s Video

By Nick Pinkerton
August 29, 2014
On the life and legacy of one of New York City's most frustrating, awe-inspiring video store chains

Bombast: The Apple, After the Fall

By Nick Pinkerton
August 22, 2014
The high-low country: parsing the taste of the late Menahem Golan through the 1980 semiotext The Apple

Bombast: Queens, City of Cinema (Part Two)

By Nick Pinkerton
August 15, 2014
Of multiplexes and men: the grand tour of theaters continues

Bombast: Queens, City of Cinema (Part One)

By Nick Pinkerton
August 14, 2014
Home turf: a grand tour of the borough's theaters and their movies, one summer in the year 2014 A.D. Part one of two

Festivals: Jerusalem

By Nick Pinkerton
August 12, 2014
Contested ground: a report from the Jerusalem International Film Festival, unfolding against a wrenching backdrop of real-world drama

Bombast: It’s War

By Nick Pinkerton
August 6, 2014
Useful fictions: the repulsions and attractions of war and its chronicles

Bombast: I Love Don Weis

By Nick Pinkerton
July 25, 2014
From fantasias to football ballets to M*A*S*H, the prolific career of director Don Weis

Bombast: Ad Hominem, Ad Nauseam

By Nick Pinkerton
July 18, 2014
The art of (flame) war: on civility and criticism

Bombast: Poliziotteschi and Screening History

By Nick Pinkerton
July 4, 2014
On the sublime nature—and impossibility of understanding—historical context

Bombast: Jersey Boys

By Nick Pinkerton
June 27, 2014
Female trouble: on Jersey Boys, Mrs. Eastwood & Company, and Tightrope

Bombast: Drop Dead Fred, Come Back Rik Mayall

By Nick Pinkerton
June 20, 2014
Ego formation: on revisiting a favorite film from childhood and its star

Bombast: Punking Out

By Nick Pinkerton
June 13, 2014
We Are the Best! and a mosh down memory lane with punk and punks in cinema

Bombast: The Punishment Continues

By Nick Pinkerton
June 6, 2014
Cinema's new economics, in an era of multiple platforms and endless garbage

Bombast: Williamsburg on Screen

By Nick Pinkerton
May 30, 2014
North Brooklyn filmed, before and after the hipster hoards and condos

Bombast: The Immigrant and Godzilla

By Nick Pinkerton
May 23, 2014
Of monsters and melodrama: a look at intimate American cinema and blockbuster art