132 newyork| december9–22, 2019
coming out, it felt as though I’d been hearing it all
my life. After so many tried to stamp the language
out, it’s moving to hear how quickly and beautifully
it comes dancing back into the world. h.s
MOVIES- (^) See Scorsese
Non-Fiction
Support your local auteur.
Film Forum, through December 17.
Film Forum presents 45 years of Martin Scorse-
se’sworkintherealworld—i.e., hisdocumentary
andconcertfilms.Herearehisfamilyportraits
(Italianamerican), hispaeanstoworld cinema
(My Voyage to Italy), and his unabashedgroupie-
dom for real superheroes (The Last Waltz, Shine
a Light, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan). d.e
ART - (^) See Nathalie Djurberg
and Hans Berg
A trip to the underworld.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 West 21st Street,
through December 20.
Enter Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s dark-
ened garden of sensual and fantasy delights pre-
pared to behold sculptures of birds inserting their
beaks into beautiful open flowers as well as a
handful of animated videos of all manner of sex-
ual dreams, fears, and imagining. In short, color-
fully fecund films, cavorting Claymation-style
figures and puppets fight, seduce, trample, and
abuse one another. The viewer is enrapt, coaxed
in, and left hungering for more without ever
gleaning any moral to it all. Let this boundaryless
world beckon to you. j.s.
BOOKS - (^) Read Midlife
Aging with Elinor.
The Monacelli Press.
In Elinor Carucci’s fourth monograph, the auto-
biographer and photographer immerses you in
middle age with moving images of herchildren,
her uterus, and her naked self. “Women—
mothers—have been aging forever,” writes New
York’s Lisa Miller, “but that has always been more
an occasion for self-help than a subject for art.”
TV - (^) Wat ch John Mulaney &
the Sack Lunch Bunch
Kid Gorgeous himself.
Netflix, December 24.
Comedian John Mulaney made and hosts this
special, modeled on a retro kids’ variety show and
also starring ... oh, you’re already excited to watch
this simply because I mentioned John Mulaney?
Cool. Enjoy! j.c.
MOVIES - (^) See Cunningham
Don’t wait to stream this.
In theaters December 13.
Alla Kovgan celebrates the artistic evolution of
Merce Cunningham in a film that feels more
present tense than archival—partly owing to
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