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Author Keva York

Keva York

New York-born, Melbourne-based writer and film critic Keva York is a regular contributor to ABC Arts. She holds a doctorate from the University of Sydney, awarded for her thesis on the subject of Crispin Glover's IT Trilogy.

“All These Things That I’ve Done” in Southland Tales (2006)

Keva York
October 2020
Pop Music in Film
“I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier / I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier / I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier…” In an American flag-festooned arcade, Justin Timberlake lip-syncs the anthemic refrain from ...
Crispin Glover

Goodbye, McFly: Crispin Glover’s ‘It’ Trilogy and the Cinema of Reaction

Keva York
September 2016
American Extreme
In directing the taboo-themed It trilogy Crispin Hellion Glover broke away from his iconic role as George McFly in blockbuster Back to the Future (1985). In What is it? (2005) Glover’s insistence that he is n...
Burden of Dreams

Challenging the Impossible: Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams

Keva York
March 2016
CTEQ Annotations on Film
“You wanted to know the story of Fitzcarraldo,” Werner Herzog intones over roving shots of treetops shrouded in fog, deep in the Peruvian Amazon. “It’s a strange story, a little bit Sisyphus-like story or a sto...

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