New Jerusalem
Basically a rehash of the same theme--- the world of a depressed individual--- that was explored in THE BUILDER , a film Alverson produced a year earlier. Only this time...
Rick Alverson
Rick Alverson (1971) is a independent filmmaker living in Richmond, Virginia. His 2015 feature Entertainment premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was the closing night film at New Directors/New Films. It was acquired by Magnolia Pictures. His previous dramatic, confrontational
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Filmography
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New Jerusalem
Sean, an Irish immigrant to America, returning from military service in Afghanistan, finds his heart and mind in disarray. He befriends Ike, (Will Oldham, in his first leading role since OLD JOY) a strong willed Evangelical Christian, who endeavors to ensure the fragile Seanʼs salvation. A...Watch Movie
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The Builder
Following an Irish immigrant carpenter from coastal Queens to the Catskills and beyond, THE BUILDER is an American existential portrait that explores the gulf between the idea of a thing and the thing itself. Having set off to the New York countryside to construct a reproduction of the earliest...Watch Movie
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The Builder
A plodding often-times unrelated sequence of images supposedly attempting to capture the depressed state of an individual but mostly a visualization of minutiae whether it be chipping away at wooden...
New Jerusalem
Alverson's film offers a study of two very different men trying to form a friendship for two very different reasons. The film is intimate, intense and disturbing. Alverson takes a...
The Builder
Colm O'Leary has an interesting presence, but Alverson's film refuses to give the viewer much direct information about this builder. As this artfully filmed movie progresses the information slowly emerges....
The Builder
did not understand..