Acropolis Cinema
Bringing experimental, international, and undistributed films to Los Angeles
Notes on an Appearance (Dir. Ricky D'Ambrose, 2018)
Date: August 22, 2018
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Downtown Independent
Address: 251 S. Main St, Los Angeles, CA. 90012
Los Angeles premiere! Co-presented by MUBI!
A young man’s disappearance is at the center of an enigmatic, haunted film set inside New York City apartments, subway stations, bookstores, and cafés as the supporters of an elusive political theorist embark on a covert program of indiscriminate violence and censure. But Todd and Madeleine, who search for the missing David, soon enter the company of strangers promising diversion and intrigue, and the reasons for David’s disappearance become much less preoccupying — and less meaningful. (Grasshopper)
Preceded by: Six Cents in the Pocket (Dir. Ricky D'Ambrose, 2015)
An extraordinary new mode of movie narrative.
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
An anti-mystery in the tradition of L’Avventura assembled with the cool reserve of Robert Bresson.
Calum Marsh, Village Voice
With rigor and precision [and a] classical aesthetic. Like a quirkier Bresson, without the Catholic ennui.
Greg Cwik, Slant Magazine
An aesthetically bold first feature from a guiding intelligence. In the same lineage as Robert Bresson and Straub/Huillet.
David Perrin, Berlin Film Journal
D’Ambrose imports the precision of Robert Bresson into an acerbic, cosmopolitan milieu, resulting in a fascinating little movie about people trapped by the details of everyday life and searching for a bigger picture that constantly eludes them.
Eric Kohn, Indiewire
