The Belarusian-American Succession actress, writer, director and Red Scare podcast host on the friends she turns to for recommendations.
I’m lucky to live in New York City where there is lots of quality repertory film programming. I’m a big fan of Film Forum, personally.
Eugene Kotlyarenko directed me in my first film that I also co-wrote with him called Wobble Palace. We’ve been friends a long time and he has a movie club that he sends out via newsletter. He has terrific, wide-ranging and searching taste and knows me well, so I can trust his recommendations.
Eugene recommended a film to me recently called Exposed starring Nastassja Kinski, who I always enjoy. Madeline Quinn, my co-writer on The Scary Of Sixty-First, recently saw an Olivier Assayas film called Boarding Gate that seemed very up my alley, and ended with one of our favourite Sparks songs: ‘The Number One Song In Heaven’. That really intrigued me.
I used to be in a WhatsApp group that I was invited to join by a British artist called Ed Fornieles called Film Club but it wasn’t exclusive enough so there was lots of in-fighting and peripheral chatter. It’s now defunct.
Nick Pinkerton is a friend and film critic [for Film Comment] who I’d met through people in New York involved in filmmaking and has a terrific Substack. I don’t follow the work of many contemporary critics, and find it to be a typically lowly form, increasingly corrupted by moralism and politics. I listen to Pure Cinema Podcast [hosted by indie producer Elric Kane and music supervisor Brian Saur] from time to time, but mostly I glean my insights instinctively, or from my dreams or subconscious impulses.
I had dinner recently with Ed Lachman, the cinematographer who did Carol with Todd Haynes and Light Sleeper for Paul Schrader, who I met at a screening of Annette. Ed is such a pure and thoughtful enjoyer of cinema and brought along a list of films he thought I should see. One of them was a recent Dutch film called Take Me Somewhere Nice by Ena Sendijarevic. It hadn’t even been on my radar, but was so beautiful and special.
I don’t have much of a libido for social media as now that I’ve achieved niche celebrity I’m not allowed to shitpost anymore.
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