n1fr

N1FR is the irregular online film supplement to n+1, with writing on contemporary American and foreign films. Edited by A. S. Hamrah.

August 2010

N1FR Issue 1

Chris Fujiwara

To Have Done with the Contemporary Cinema

Since the 1970s, many people have been used to thinking of the cinema as post-revolutionary, or as an unfinished revolution, or as dragging itself on in a kind of zombie-afterlife pastiche-and-parody mode. More…

A.S. Hamrah

Bad Influences, Bad Personalities

In the first movie, Carrie pretended to learn that a big diamond ring wasn’t what love and marriage were all about. In the second, she gets her ring, a sinister black diamond symbolizing the war-for-oil aspects of this shameless movie. More…

Christine Smallwood

Claire Denis

Denis is especially receptive to three things: human bodies (especially when they are semi-nude, and especially black touching white skin); bodies of water; and transit. More…

Elizabeth Gumport

We All Die There Now

In a just world, these relentless references would cost Kick-Ass something. Allusion invites comparison, and in every face-off Kick-Ass comes out the loser: in fact, as soon as Cage mentioned Woo, I wished I were watching Face/Off. More…

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