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“To inspire himself, he plays recordings of poets he loves—Williams and H.D., Snyder and Schuyler.”
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“The poetry world in the city is multifarious and energetic, with waves of practitioners reading, listening to, and publishing one another.”
“It takes some persuading, but Oscar gets Yurlady to enroll in a creative writing workshop at the center.”
“Donghwa (Ha Seongguk) is dropping off his girlfriend, Kim Junhee (Kang Soyi).”
“Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe), the hero of Late Fame, has made his peace with all that.”
“But films need familiar plots, so the protagonists—all men—go searching for connection.”
“Poet-characters are handy for asking whether resistance to this tide is worth it.”
“He knows to apologize for it, which makes it somehow even worse.”
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“In any case, it all falls apart quickly: Gloria retreats, the literary event is largely a farce.”
“They protest, party, and parent together, while arguing over questions of aesthetics, identity, ideology, and class.”
“One night, coming home, he’s waylaid at his doorstep by Meyers, a recent college grad, and an unexpected fan of Saxberger’s long-forgotten book of poems.”
“Has the movie somehow justified, by stranding the poet, the family’s vain but common-sense view of life?”
“But while I can’t speak for Seoul or Medellín, I know that most poets don’t really live this way in New York, in solitary exile from some crystallized high point in the past, as romantic or revolutionary as it may have been ( Peter Hujar’s Day treats it as both radiant and ordinary).”
“Saxberger is finally all-in when Gloria (Greta Lee), the group’s self-appointed muse, appears on the scene to flatter and flirt.”
“Article continues after advertisement The future looms, since the viewer knows what the characters in their filmic present do not: that the friends and peers we hear about will soon be devastated by the AIDS crisis; that Hujar’s reputation will be decades in growing; and that his photographs will reveal new dimensions when the years have done their work to make them a record of a city and sensibility hardly imaginable from our moment of hyper-gentrification, gross economic disparity, and anti-immigrant state violence.”
“A Poet film film criticism Late Fame Matt Longabucco movies Nightboat Books poetry poets The Hummingbird What Does That Nature Say to You Matt Longabucco Matt Longabucco is the author of poetry collections The Hummingbird (Nightboat, 2026) and Heroic Dose (2022), and of M/W: An essay on Jean Eustache’s La maman et la putain (2021).”
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“The first was South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo’s What Does That Nature Say to You .”
“Hujar is unsure of his prospects, curious where his talent and ambition might lead, embedded in a community that may or may not take him there.”
“Along the way, they recite their poems, none exactly amazing.”
“Invited to read at the literary center where he hangs out, he attempts a speech about the suffering of poets before being prompted by the center’s director to please just read his work.”