“A. S. Hamrah’s writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely.” —Elif Batuman “Unerring” (Bookforum), “hilarious” (Dana Spiotta), “our age’s most irreplaceable critic” (Guernica), “a genius” (Kenyon Review), A. S. Hamrah returns with an extraordinary collection of his best film writing for n+1, The Baffler, The New York Review of Books, the Criterion Collection, and other publications. Algorithm of the Night assembles Hamrah’s essays on films and filmmakers and his inimitable, aphoristic reviews—a body of work that, taken…mehr
“A. S. Hamrah’s writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely.” —Elif Batuman “Unerring” (Bookforum), “hilarious” (Dana Spiotta), “our age’s most irreplaceable critic” (Guernica), “a genius” (Kenyon Review), A. S. Hamrah returns with an extraordinary collection of his best film writing for n+1, The Baffler, The New York Review of Books, the Criterion Collection, and other publications. Algorithm of the Night assembles Hamrah’s essays on films and filmmakers and his inimitable, aphoristic reviews—a body of work that, taken together, presents a powerful alternative to a culture mired in publicity and stale convention. A journey through the overlapping dystopias of the Trump years, the Covid years, and the Trump years, Algorithm of the Night attends with remarkable style and precision to a film industry in self-imposed crisis, a chronicle of failures and occasional miracles from AI to The Zone of Interest. Against the tides of ignorance and solipsism, Algorithm of the Night is film criticism as literature and—perhaps—prophecy.
A. S. Hamrah is the author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018. He is the film critic for n+1 and writes for a number of other publications, including Harper’s, Bookforum, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Fast Company, The Baffler, and the Criterion Collection. He has worked as a movie theater projectionist, a semiotic brand analyst in the television industry, a political pollster, a football cinematographer, and for the film director Raúl Ruiz. He produced the feature-length documentary Bunker, directed by Jenny Perlin, which was the opening night film at the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight in 2022. He lives in New York.
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Introduction: A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs 1. We Can Still Think Our Own Thoughts 2. Double Squibs with Hamburger Meat 3. The Shallow Now 4. The MoMA Gramercy 5. Stay Near the Tree 6. Welcome to Violence 7. Dutch Angles 8. Dreams Are Lost Memories 9. Every Moment Between Human Beings 10. All We Got in Common 11. Money Is an Iron 12. Thread Count 13. The Work of Fate 14. The Other Guy Being Socialism 15. Zero Hour Contracts 16. The Old Bamboo 17. All-Consuming Horror 18. Slime Regained 19. In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing 20. Postcard from Home 21. The Bitter with the Sour 22. Time Is a Rabid Dog 23. Inside the Special People Club 24. Cinema Is Never on Time 25. The World Was Just an Address 26. The Captain’s Dinner Is Coming Up 27. Sound Sleeper 28. Riding the Elephant 29. Persistence of Mission 30. Objects in Space at a Moment in Time 31. Beyond the Visible 32. This Glass, This Drink, This Countertop, Our Bodies 33. The Business of Nostalgia 34. A Young, Honest Guy Like Himself 35. Time to Face Reality 36. Vacuum Studies 37. Agnès All Along 38. Oil Paintings at the Dentist’s Office 39. Enemy of the Good 40. Movie Stars in Bathtubs Acknowledgments Index of Titles Index of Names
Introduction: A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs 1. We Can Still Think Our Own Thoughts 2. Double Squibs with Hamburger Meat 3. The Shallow Now 4. The MoMA Gramercy 5. Stay Near the Tree 6. Welcome to Violence 7. Dutch Angles 8. Dreams Are Lost Memories 9. Every Moment Between Human Beings 10. All We Got in Common 11. Money Is an Iron 12. Thread Count 13. The Work of Fate 14. The Other Guy Being Socialism 15. Zero Hour Contracts 16. The Old Bamboo 17. All-Consuming Horror 18. Slime Regained 19. In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing 20. Postcard from Home 21. The Bitter with the Sour 22. Time Is a Rabid Dog 23. Inside the Special People Club 24. Cinema Is Never on Time 25. The World Was Just an Address 26. The Captain’s Dinner Is Coming Up 27. Sound Sleeper 28. Riding the Elephant 29. Persistence of Mission 30. Objects in Space at a Moment in Time 31. Beyond the Visible 32. This Glass, This Drink, This Countertop, Our Bodies 33. The Business of Nostalgia 34. A Young, Honest Guy Like Himself 35. Time to Face Reality 36. Vacuum Studies 37. Agnès All Along 38. Oil Paintings at the Dentist’s Office 39. Enemy of the Good 40. Movie Stars in Bathtubs Acknowledgments Index of Titles Index of Names
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