Tag: Grasshopper

Damian’s Magnetic Band of Brothers Role Leads to Keane by Erik Luers | Film Maker Magazine | August 19, 2022 If every film is a document of its own making, then Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane, shot in real locations in and around New York City in 2004, is also a depiction of the period in which…

Masterfully Harrowing Psychodrama by Isaac Feldberg | Roger Ebert.com | August 18, 2022 Across a body of work both compassionate and uncompromising, the filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan has maintained a distinctive physical proximity to the emotionally isolated characters he depicts living in society’s margins. “Clean, Shaven,” his 1993 debut, worked rigorously to approximate the inner reality…

Magnetism of Damian Lewis by Ethan Vestby | The Film Stage | August 18, 2022 Often a re-release is granted to some long-cherished classic or cult sensation. In the case of Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane, which played the festival circuit through 2004 and received a small theatrical run in 2005, a much-underseen film has been given…

Mesmerized by the Performances by Patrick Preziosi | Slant Magazine | August 15, 2022 As American indie cinema continues to make startlingly popular in-roads into extremely suffocating subjectivity—as evinced by the success of the Safdies’ Good Time and Uncut Gems, as well as the critical attention paid toward Eliza Hittman—it’s important to uphold the foundational…