QUICK TALK John C 0 加 the drama C01umbus, the acto ら 45 , s the estranged SO 可 0 れ architect wh0 has ta れ卍 . れ wasfilmed ⅲ Columbus, 加 d. , 0 mecca ofmodernist architecture. Did 亡 e movie change OW yo Ok at architecture? I thought about hOW architects can make us feel in the way they design spaces. l'm thinking about North Christian Church, by Eero Saarinen. My father was a preacher. They say the church is not the building, it's the people in it. ln this church, the seating went upward. lt was in the round, SO the congregants lOOked at one another and down at the preacher. lt was impossible not tO conclude that the church was the people around you. The film talks about seeing the place where YO grew up with new eyes. Has that happened t0 YO 設 ? L. A. 's a great place t0 have that happen. You drive by these mini-malls. They look so ugly, but ifyou close your eyes and open them, it's remarkable that so much life is happen- ing. There might be a Spanish-speaking church or a Korean karaoke room. These little mini-malls contain all this life. You're in the upcoming season Of TheExorcist. Did it give yo 収 night- mares? part Ofthe reason I tOOk [the role] is I have not been ⅲ this genre. I saw it as very white. Horror has been killing offthe blond cheerleader. But typically, it is a struggle to remember something's scary. [Filming Star Trek on] the Enterprise, you have tO work at pretending you're flying through space. I expect the same in horror. What dO yo 収 remember about the depictions Of Asian Americans onscreen When YO 収 were a kid? I remember seeing not much. And when it was there, it was usually insulting. I didn't want tO contribute tO that library 0f iconogr 叩 hy. I always saw it from the vantage point Of 12-year-old me. lfl had an audition for the role of a Chinese delivery guy, would 12-year-01d me appreciate it or be dismayed by it? Despite yourself, you believe what the screen tells you about yourself. —ELIZA BERMAN ON MY RADAR Pattinson in GOOd Time: the eyes have it SEARCH PARTY “石題 stgo 目れ tO 社 . That s れ 03 0 Ⅲ 0 名 i 9. A 0 S れ 0 々 at , the 厄 ad actress, is rea リ 9 新 ted. BO リ she 900d. ” MOVIES Pattinson packs a punch in GOOd Time IN THE EARLYMINUTES OFJOSH AND BENNY Safdie's G00d Time, we meet Nick Nikas (Benny Safdie), a sullen young man who clearly suffers from some kind ofintellectual disability, as he's being quizzed by a kindly mental-health practitioner. Nick wears a hearing aid. His words come slowly—his pillowy lips can barely form them—and his eyes seem shut offfrom the world. When the shrink asks Nick what first comes tO mind when he hears the words scissors and a cooking ” hiS answer— as easy tO read as a street sign—is, can hurt yourselfwith both. ” Nick needs real help, but he's not going to get it from his bad- apple brother Connie (R0bert Pattinson), who manipulates Nick even as he protects him. The tWO are entwined in a figurative headlock Of dependence and twisted affection. lt's a power struggle neither can bust out Of. The Safdie brothers' fourth fiction feature is partly a study ofdysfunctional brotherhood, partly a gritty-funny New York City crime caper. lfyou can tolerate the Safdies' fondness for extreme closeups—the picture is shOt largely in a mode I like t0 call Blackhead Theater—Good Time offers plenty ofsweaty suspense laced with a few bittersweet laughs. But Pattinson is the real reason tO see it: his Connie, wiry and intense, with beady, cracked- out eyes, is the kind ofguyyou'd cross the street tO avoid. But by the movie's end, you realize that his desperatlon veils a rush oflonging. For what? Pattinson plays Connie as a guy wh0 just does n't know— and that not knowing dogs him like a silent, persistent ghost. —S. z. 寸 V 】一 1 0009 2S39VVNl A ト 139 ー 30 を d ・ 3 A}NV 】 0 工 0 一くコ ON9VL•N 、 S ト 33d トの 3S0 工 M 47