The Knockturnal attended New York’s first screening of “Like Cattle Towards Glow” on Thursday evening, at Kickstarter’s Greenpoint Headquarters. The film is a collaborative work by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley, exploring themes of homosexuality, fetishization, sexual violation, and melancholia.
Park Chan Wook’s career is built on pushing borders. His films Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005) are household titles in Korea for this reason: they tackle audacious themes and explicit content, all with an undaunted attitude.
Pedro Almodóvar talked of Runaway, a collection of short stories by Alice Munro, which his film Julieta is inspired from.
Andrea Arnold’s fourth full-length film “American Honey” announces a brand new face on screen: a spunky twenty-year-old Texan, Sasha Lane. Lane plays ‘Star,’ a lost teenager who joins a bandwagon of other teen misfits, travelling around the Midwest selling magazine subscriptions.
There are two types of brotherhood: brothers by birth, and brothers by pledge. Goat explores the forbearance of both.
The Knockturnal shared breakfast with William Jackson Harper from NBC’s new comedy series “The Good Place”. He plays Chidi, a professor of morality and ethics and Eleanor’s (Kristen Bell) “soul mate.” Directed by Drew Goddard, other actors include Ted Danson and Tiya Sircar.
From the film: Riley Keough, Sasha Lane, Will Patton, McCaul Lombardi, Isaiah Stone, Raymond Coalson, Dakota Powers, Chad Cox, Stefan Nordstrom, writer/director Andrea Arnold, producer Lars Knudsen, co-producer Julia Oh, executive producers Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler were in attendance.
The Knockturnal attended a roundtable conversation with the writer and star of the British comedy series, Fleabag. Waller-Bridge talks of her character’s feminism, and being openly expressive about sexuality as a female. This is a short segment of our conversation with her.
Fleabag is a British comedy series adapted from Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s highly acclaimed Edinburgh play. The hysterically crude and cynical show is both written and starred by Phoebe.
The Knockturnal attended Dan Liu’s show early morning Saturday for NYFW. Liu is a Chinese-Japanese designer based in Canada, who draws inspiration from his assorted cultural background—many of his looks suggest a slight hint of the orient, with its gold linings and intricate patterns.