Keva York
Keva York is a New York-born, Melbourne-based writer and critic. Her work can be found at the Metrograph Journal, MUBI Notebook, and Screen Slate, amongst other publications.
There is this diffusion to the image projected on the glass. The glass has this inherent texture, and the way color looks on it is not natural… it’s not quite like Technicolor, maybe more like two-strip Technicolor, or even some early hand-colored things.
Released in 1999, a year now fetishized as the last great flowering of the domestic cinema, American Movie encapsulates the shaggy, aspirational optimism of a quashed era, and one worthy of romantic remembrance.