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Jun 13, 2018 · 10. Ari Aster received his MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory. He has written and directed several short films, including The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011), Munchausen (2013), and Basically (2014). His films have played the New York Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, Slamdance, and many others. Hereditary, now in theaters, is his ...
Apr 14, 2023 · Ari Aster‘s “Beau Is Afraid” has a lot going on: It’s a sprawling, Homeric journey into the troubled psyche of neurotic, middle-aged man (Joaquin Phoenix) and a disturbing, pitch-black ...
Feb 4, 2024 · Ari Aster is a highly inventive horror filmmaker known for his lurid imagery and emotional realism. Midsommar, inspired by a real Swedish holiday festival, explores the horrifying aspects of the ...
There may be no modern filmmaker who’s more esteemed…yet less understood than Ari Aster. The man himself—completely unpretentious and humble in interviews, full of enthusiasm and ideas, and backed by a sincere love for movies—is not as enigmatic as directors like David Lynch or Lars von Trier, yet his movies become confounding labyrinths that perplex audiences, leaving them impressed ...
Jun 4, 2021 · It’s easy to thread together this atmospheric nightmare with Ari Aster’s own Hereditary, as two similarly dark and captivating family affairs. The director is a big fan of the film, especially in how radically emotional the storytelling is, but not at the expense of the climax of the movie.
Jul 8, 2019 · Ari Aster is a writer and director of cult movies—his two features, “Hereditary,” from 2018, and “Midsommar,” which opened last week, are both grotesque and gory dramas about cults ...
