Aaron Hillis

Aaron Hillis is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

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Jodorowsky’s Endless Poetry Continues a Phantasmagorical Coming of Age

By Aaron Hillis
Jul 19, 2017

At 88 years young, the rebel-shaman filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has led an eclectic life and enjoyed a provocative career not easily encapsulated. His 1970 acid western, El Topo, crowned him godfather of the midnight-movie craze. His phantasmagoric 1973 masterpiece, The Holy Mountain, was ripped off by Kanye West for the...
Herzog Logs On: The Inquisitive Filmmaker Contemplates the Mysteries of Our Digital Existence

By Aaron Hillis
Aug 25, 2016

Late in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, his unsurprisingly wry, quizzical documentary survey on life inside and beside the virtual world, Werner Herzog stumps two brain researchers with a lyrical question in that instantly recognizable (and often parodied) German accent: “Does the internet dream of itself?” An ever-adventurous...
Jonathan Demme's Neil Young Journeys, Another Journey Worth Joining

By Aaron Hillis
Jul 12, 2012

Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs and Something Wild, but there's something wilder — or at least, more directly stimulating and pure — about Jonathan Demme's live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking Heads show (and David Byrne's oversized...
Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

By Aaron Hillis
May 24, 2012

In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create — and maybe more significantly, that studios still distribute — summer entertainment for grown-ups. Not that those buckets of popcorn are going to empty themselves, but who needs to be reminded...
Source Code: Jake Gyllenhaal's Timeless Hero Overcomes Weird Plot.

By Aaron Hillis
Mar 31, 2011

Moon director Duncan Jones' sophomore feature, Source Code—a pseudo-cerebral, modestly budgeted sci-fi thriller with ambitions more Philip K. Dick-like in scope than the recent Dick adaptation The Adjustment Bureau—is a propulsive ride worth your popcorn dollar, not for its preposterous genre tinkering but for its refreshingly humanist take on a...

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