J. Gabriel Boylan

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Bio: J. Gabriel Boylan is culture editor at Capital. He was previously an assistant editor at Harper's Magazine.

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Ed Burns on filming New York, making Christmas movies, and the new realities of indie filmmaking

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"I kind of knew I did not want to tell the happy, cheery, romantic, Hey look at this big crazy Irish family, come have a laugh with us kind of Christmas movie," Burns said. "I wanted to go with something a little more honest, a little more grounded in the real world to reflect a little more of what most folks and families go through in the holidays." More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on December 7th, 2012 1:07pm

 
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Finding Ginger Baker: First-time filmmaker Jay Bulger traces his journey into the heart of rock & roll darkness

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"He's the master timekeeper, and original rock & roll junkie, superstar, lunatic," Jay Bulger said of Ginger Baker, the subject of his debut documentary, Beware of Mr. Baker, showing this week at Film Forum. "He was living at the end of the world, he was a little bored, he wanted to tell his story, and I happened to be the person who showed up and convinced him to tell it. And it wasn't that easy. He's a really, really, really difficult person to work with, and I'm not special in any means, I just happen to be kind of preconditioned to this type of person. It was like sitting there with my grandfather; his grumpiness, his cantankerousness, I related to it and I'm really attracted to it."  More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on November 29th, 2012 4:06pm

 
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Le Carré's masterful spy stories, spun on film

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But two of the least-known films in the series, The Looking Glass War and The Deadly Affair, are perhaps the most enjoyable and surprising of the bunch. Largely forgotten, they are both, in their own ways, wonderfully evocative of the Cold War era, and while stylistically and narratively they couldn't be more different, they share some of le Carré's most essential enduring themes. And of course, nearly everyone gets screwed over. More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on September 27th, 2012 3:13pm

 
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What Ai Weiwei means here, and at home

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His work is unarguably brave and commendable, but how does it fit into contemporary Chinese life, society, and activism? It's hard to tell, even in Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a new documentary on the Chinese artist and activist, out today. More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on July 27th, 2012 3:29pm

 
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The extraordinary ordinary: Rineke Dijkstra at the Guggenheim

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Of course it's not just the old, familiar "information overload" complaint that actually echoed through the ages long before the digital era. For those of us who don’t give in to the paranoia that zettabytes of cat videos and baby pictures are unstoppably degrading the sanctity of The Image, it’s extraordinary to be confronted, as one is at the Guggenheim Museum’s current Rineke Dijkstra mid-career retrospective, with rather ordinary-looking images of rather ordinary-looking people, and to be intensely moved. More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on July 11th, 2012 2:37pm

 
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Artist Tom Sachs previews his mission to Mars, starting from Park Avenue

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"I wondered, What's the ultimate brand. And I thought, NASA represents our destiny in the stars and ... the mutation of man growing wings using his super-powerful mind," Sachs said. It's this celebration of the human mind that is the through-line connecting all the pieces in Space Program: Mars, from the modified Winnebago (Mobile Quarantine Facility) to the exercise unit (Space Camp) to the bike-repair shop to Mission Control Center—a huge array that includes a boombox, an iPad, turntables, bottles of vodka, and monitors that can show dozens of locations around the Armory, from miniature sets of splashdown to the intimate moments the astronauts share inside the Lunar Module—most of the things constructed from plywood, fiberglass, and Con-Edison's familiar white-and-orange wood pedestrian barriers. More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on June 15th, 2012 1:11pm

 
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'Moonrise Kingdom' and the necessary Gizmology of Wes Anderson

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Wes Anderson's latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, out today, epitomizes how, for him, attention to detail goes way deeper than forming a pretty picture More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on May 25th, 2012 5:50pm

 
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Werner Herzog, art-world insult-comic

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"Craft has completely shifted to the world of ideas," he said. "You take some cardboard boxes and throw them in a corner, and a rolled-up, greasy sleeping bag, and some squished beer cans… and all of a sudden you're making a commentary of homelessness." He spoke of a world of artists "trying to manufacture excitement." More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on May 18th, 2012 4:48pm

 
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In 'Gerhard Richter Painting,' a rare look at the German artist's secretive process

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Richter explains the images hung on his studio wall for inspiration. One is of a classical sculpture, headless and armless. He speaks of the brutality inherent in these ravages of time, and then examines a photo of the death camps, an image he notes as appearing remarkably serene until one examines it more closely. Such are the power of captured images, and images that recall a history that seems inherently personal for Richter. Yet in another scene, looking at family photos, he notes their inability to communicate a true past, to be whole documents, to fully mean something. More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on March 19th, 2012 11:06am

 
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Wesley Stace, a k a John Wesley Harding, on 'not being a dick', the Cabinet of Wonders and Walter Benjamin

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“Sometimes I intersect with the marketplace better than other times,” Stace offered by way of an explanation for the vicissitudes of his success over the past two and a half decades that he’s been making music and, more recently, writing novels. “Before I made this album I hoped it was good and went in with the heart wide open. When I finished the album I thought, It’s probably the best record I could possibly make right now.” More

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By J. Gabriel Boylan

on October 28th, 2011 2:24pm

 

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