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.
Ari Aster attending the premiere of 'Eddington' in Los Angeles in June 2025 (Monica Schipper/Getty Images) Ari Aster attending the premiere of 'Eddington' in Los Angeles in June 2025 (Monica Schipper/Getty Images) In an interview with Insider, Espinosa was ...
The first and maybe only true jump scare in Ari Aster’s “Eddington” comes right at the start. A barefoot old man trudges down the center of a road running through an empty Western town. He’s ranting and incoherently raving as he climbs a craggy hill silhouetted against a twilight sky. He gazes, or maybe glares, out at the town below.
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.
Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on politically opposing sides in a well-off community during the summer of 2020. "'Eddington' has something to offend (or annoy) just about everybody,
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Ari Aster, the man behind some of Hollywood’s most unsettling films, takes his own anxiety and puts it onscreen.
A sheriff, a mayor and a virus walk into a bar in Ari Aster’s bleak and brain-sick satire that stars a dueling Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.