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- A member of the Online Film Critics Society, Christopher Bourne is a senior reporter for Meniscus Magazine. He is a writer and incurable cinephile living in New York City.
![Before the start of this year’s New York Film Festival, if you had asked me what would be the most divisive selection, I would have said, without a doubt, Lars […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/TrashHumpers-115x115.jpg "Harmony Korine’s “Trash Humpers”– 2009 New York Film Festival Review")
![“Kanikosen,” or “The Crab Factory Ship,” is a famous work of proletarian literature by Takiji Kobayashi, first published in 1929. It tells the story of a group of men on […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/kanikosen-115x115.jpg "Sabu’s “Kanikosen” – New York Film Festival 2009 Review")
![At the New York Film Festival, it’s almost guaranteed that there will be at least one controversial film to set the Alice Tully Hall denizens’ tongues wagging. The Danish cinematic […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/antichrist-115x115.jpg "Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” – 2009 New York Film Festival Review")
![As they have done since 2005, graduates of San Francisco’s Academy of Art University once again showed off their latest collections at the Bryant Park tents during Fashion Week. While […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NYFash09-1britex-115x115.jpg "Academy of Art University Fall 2009 – New York Fashion Week")
![In “Breathless”’ pre-credits opener, a man punches and kicks a screaming woman out on the street in front of a handful of shocked observers, who nevertheless do not attempt to […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/breathless-115x115.jpg "“Breathless” Review – 2009 New York Asian Film Festival")
![Day after day all I see are dead people. And so the dead appear to me as serene, even beautiful. By contrast, the despicableness of the living began to irk […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Departures-115x115.jpg "Yojiro Takita’s “Departures” – 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Review")
![Much of the independent film world has now become a frightening landscape of “Juno” clones, and Matt Aselton’s film “Gigantic” (co-scripted by Aselton and Adam Nagata) is proof of this. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/still1-115x115.jpg "Matt Aselton’s “Gigantic” – 2009 Gen Art Film Festival Review")
![The précis of Bradley Rust Gray’s film “The Exploding Girl” sounds like boilerplate mumblecore. Vacationing college girl Ivy (Zoe Kazan), battling an epileptic condition, has halting and increasingly awkward conversations […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/exploding-girl-still-115x115.jpg "Bradley Rust Gray’s “The Exploding Girl” – Movie Review")
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