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Sep 19, 2019 · Watch on. Over the course of “Zeroville,” which stumbles from 1969 to the early 1980s, Vikar will rise improbably from set builder to award-winning editor in an industry heaving with bold new ...
Dec 2, 2007 · Terse, fanciful, dreamlike and sometimes nightmarish, this remarkable novel will test you and tease you and leave you desperate to line up at Film Forum (or hunt down Erickson’s top 150 on DVD ...
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Dec 2, 2007 · Share full article. By Steve Erickson. Dec. 2, 2007. 1. On Vikar's shaved head is tattooed the right and left lobes of his brain. One lobe is occupied by an extreme close-up of Elizabeth Taylor ...
8 hours ago · The New York Times, like most of the national newspapers, leads with the Supreme Court granting substantial immunity to former President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 case, with a 6-3 vote reflecting ...
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- Benjamin Lytal, The New York Sun "Beyond establishing these (somewhat) grounding details, it’s simply impossible to explain the intent and direction of this funny, disturbing, daring and demanding novel -- Erickson’s best. The set pieces in Zeroville are particularly breathtaking. (…) Terse, fanciful, dreamlike and sometimes nightmarish ...
- Steve Erickson
- Zeroville
- Novel
- 2007
Sep 19, 2019 · From the New York Times. Whatever the merits of its source material (Steve Erickson’s well-received 2007 novel), this Franco-filled project — aside from directing, he’s in virtually every scene, for the most part near-catatonic — is painful to sit through.
Sep 20, 2019 · That promise in a union between creator and material quickly dissipates as Franco embraces the zero in his title, producing a film that starts to feel like a middle finger to both Hollywood and anyone who searches for meaning in it. Early in “Zeroville,” before the movie really loses its way around the half-hour mark, an editor played by ...
