n1fr

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

February 2012

N1FR Issue 2

Chris Fujiwara

The Essential and the Unclear

If Clooney talks but says nothing, Gallo goes further in Essential Killing: he doesn’t speak at all. More…

Ben Maraniss

Mad as Mel

Lethal Weapon made Mel Gibson a bona fide Hollywood movie star—a macho lead capable of projecting vulnerability. He would repeat this act often. More…

Aaron Lake Smith

Slacker at Twenty

This early lumpen premonition of the coming Friends-era migration seems to be a preoccupation for this filmmaker. More…

Anne Elizabeth Moore

Our Pol Pot

A hand-held camera, a curious and emotionally involved reporter, and a potentially unlimited supply of mass murderers. These are the props of Enemies of the People. More…

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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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