Tag: robertdonne

Rick Alverson's not-comedy, The Comedy, is currently one of my favorite films of the year. It haunts me. It is, and I quote myself, "hilarious, transgressive, brilliant, and most people will find it unwatchable." But that doesn't mean you shouldn't...

I've never set foot in Vancouver, but I did see The Comedy at BAMcinemaFest back in June. That's right, I saw it before it was cool. And since there's no full review of the film in the ScreenAnarchy archive, it...

We've got another clip from The Comedy, Rick Alverson's hipster comedy / drama that debuted at Sundance over the weekend to wildly divergent reactions. And this one gives you a brief, but bigger, taste of the film's tone, I...

Debuting tonight in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, Rick Alverson's The Comedy follows a character named Swanson and his hipster friends, who "live in a tepid social paradise, a.k.a. Williamsburg, where their good fortune breeds indifference and recreational cruelty." Now...