Writing, Watching, Reading

Books and movies

I wrote something for ALL/IN No.5, which can be ordered here.

Also Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2022, which can be read here.

Made In Hollywood (1990) is 57 perfect minutes long. It was written by brothers Norman and Bruce Yonemoto, who directed and produced it, respectively, and stars Patricia Arquette, Michael Lerner, Ron Vawter, and Mary Woronov, with a cameo by Mike Kelly.

It is sometimes shown at museum theaters, part of series about melodrama, commercialism, etc., and was recently shown at Anthropology Film Archive with Bruce there to talk about it, as part of a retrospective of his and his brother’s work. An art film in the same category as David Cronenberg and Bruce Wagner’s Maps to the Stars, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, and plenty of other fish-out-of-water L.A. stories, it arguably takes on more, in less time with, as the great John Miller wrote for Artforum in 1991, “deceptive simplicity.”