World Has Gone Haywire in Ari Aster’s Eddington
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Ari Aster and the Museum of the Moving Image will host an 'Eddington'-inspired film series with Aster in attendance.
He's collaborated with everyone from David Fincher to the Safdies, but the Iranian-born cinematographer, most recently of "Eddington," wants them all to feel like family.
Aster sat down with The A.V. Club after a screening of Eddington at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre to talk about the terrifying future we’re all barreling towards. Eddington and Beau Is Afraid both seem like films where you woke up in a cold sweat and needed to write down what your brain had conjured up.
Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal face off in "Eddington." Credit: A24 Comedy is tragedy plus time. There may be a day when critics look back on Ari Aster's COVID-19 comedy Eddington with kinder eyes.
The film takes place in May 2020 in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, and becomes a battleground when Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) clashes with Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) over plans to bring an artificial intelligence data center to the community.
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Ari Aster’s "Eddington" stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone, but doesn’t really know what to do with them.