Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins reviews movies for NPR.org, as well as for , which covers the Washington, D.C., film scene with an emphasis on art, foreign and repertory cinema.
Jenkins spent most of his career in the industry once known as newspapers, working as an editor, writer, art director, graphic artist and circulation director, among other things, for various papers that are now dead or close to it.
He covers popular and semi-popular music for The Washington Post, Blurt, Time Out New York, and the newsmagazine show Metro Connection, which airs on member station -FM.
Jenkins is co-author, with Mark Andersen, of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. At one time or another, he has written about music for Rolling Stone, Slate, and NPR's All Things Considered, among other outlets.
He has also written about architecture and urbanism for various publications, and is a writer and consulting editor for the Time Out travel guide to Washington. He lives in Washington.
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In a near future where human cloning is possible, a woman grieving the loss of her soul mate gives birth to his clone and raises him — with complications — as her son. Critic Mark Jenkins says despite the movie's provocative premise, the film is more melancholy than erotic. -
Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen explores the practical challenges of burying nuclear waste for 100,000 years. Part documentary, part address to future civilizations, his film considers the paradox of building a structure that must be forgotten. (Recommended)
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The Vienna-born, Berlin-based filmmaker researched punitive domestic violence among Turko-Germans for two years to make When We Leave, an intense drama about a young woman torn between her traditionalist family and her desire to escape a suffocating marriage. -
As that giant patch of discarded plastic grows in the Pacific, director Werner Boote travels to 14 countries to ask manufacturers, scientists, regulators and consumers about the stuff. He's got a personal angle: His grandfather was in plastics.
