Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy took up a chunk of my watching/thinking time last week. I streamed Spring at home, then saw Hard Times and Homecoming at the Siskel on a Friday. Ten hours in all. Could’ve easily been longer. Wang shot young people migrating from far-flung villages to Zhili for work in private garment shopsContinue reading “Youth”
Monthly Archives: December 2024
Duck Inn
I pack up my French easel and gessoed thrift-store canvas and bike to the intersection of Eleanor and Loomis. I’m at this corner nearly every Sunday morning a few minutes before 10:30am waiting for the Duck to open. Sometimes there are a few others—newbies who try the locked door in vain and veterans who chatContinue reading “Duck Inn”