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Rick Alverson

“I prefer any day to be engaged, troubled and moved by something rather than to simply consume it. That engineered, feel-good opiate event —there’s so much disposable in our lives right now. In the past, I have equated “entertainment” with that disposable narcotic fantasy of cinema, the whole question of what that is is wrapped up in the motivation of making this movie.”

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    THE MOUNTAIN

    RICK ALVERSON United States, 2018

    Starring Jeff Goldblum, Udo Kier and Denis Lavant, Rick Alverson’s masterfully crafted period drama unearths the murky origins of a controversial procedure for mental illness. A still, unnerving miasma pervades this daring vision of ’50s America—rendered in meticulous, glacial set pieces.

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    NEW JERUSALEM

    RICK ALVERSON United States, 2011

    Will Oldham, the star of Old Joy and one of the indie sphere’s most underrated leading men, shines as the cocky, wounded heart of this American character study, which emerged at Rotterdam and SXSW. Directed by up-and-comer Rick Alverson, last seen with 2012’s The Comedy.

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