Anya Meksin, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

a Anya Meksin, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Anya Meksin

Anya Meksin is a writer and filmmaker in the MFA film program at Columbia University.

Moanin’ Low: On Craig Brewer’s Black Snake Moan

May 1, 2007

Stick to the trailer If you’ve seen the trailer to Black Snake Moan, stop while you’re ahead. Those two minutes of Samuel L. Jackson’s self-righteousness and Christina Ricci’s writhing make[…]

Directors · Documentaries

Riefenstahl’s Heights and Wiseman’s Follies: Allegories of Flesh in Olympia and Titicut Follies

November 1, 2005

The body beautiful meets the body besieged Leni Riefenstahl and Fred Wiseman, though rarely grouped together, are in a category apart from most documentary filmmakers in that they both used[…]

Author: Anya Meksin

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