Michael Atkinson

Michael Atkinson is a regular film contributor at the Village Voice. His work also appears in LA Weekly, Denver Westword, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times,, Houston Press and Dallas Observer.

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The Late, Great Kiarostami’s 24 Frames Invites Us to Gaze Along With a Master

By Michael Atkinson
Feb 27, 2018

It is what it says it is — 24 "frames," images digitally extrapolated out into 4 1/2-minute unconnected, unmoving set-piece shots
Ozon’s Double Lover Doubles Down on ‘80s-Style Psychosexual Thriller

By Michael Atkinson
Feb 13, 2018

Tiptoeing toward the hot tub of camp without quite diving in, Double Lover starts to fracture Chloe’s point of view, resulting in at least one fabulous Cronenbergian dream scene ...
Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time Unearths a Trove of Combustible Cinema

By Michael Atkinson
Sep 12, 2017

It’s a sign of hope that Bill Morrison, arcane found-footage wizard and poet of nitrate decay, is nearly a household name, with his films routinely feted at the New York Film Festival, showcased in the Venice Biennial and, most brazenly of all, released onto actual movie screens. Using only archival...
Don’t Miss Pioneers of African-American Cinema on Netflix (and Other Viewing Suggestions)

By Michael Atkinson
Mar 10, 2017

With movie-history viewing choices spawning like mold in a damp room, we can easily see the things we didn't even know we'd never seen. For me that includes Takashi Miike's Black Society Trilogy (Arrow Video), a trio of quick, down-and-dirty crime-gang pulp rockets (1995-99) that established Miike as Japan's fin-de-siècle...
Pelle the Conqueror’s Familiarity Has Aged Well

By Michael Atkinson
Mar 6, 2017

Sometimes the mezzobrow film-culture deadlands of the 1980s looked like it was populated almost entirely by opal-eyed European children, spying on hayloft sex and weathering the neglect of peasant elders. That tame moment found its homogenizable directors, particularly Scandinavian teddy bears, imported to Hollywood. Such was the fate of Bille...

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