Ari Aster and the Museum of the Moving Image will host an 'Eddington'-inspired film series with Aster in attendance.

Eddington, the latest film from Hereditary director Ari Aster, is a dark comedy about COVID-fueled chaos in a fictional New Mexico town. The film wades into hot-button topics regarding police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, AI investment, and mask mandates, among others. Ari Aster is asking for trouble with Eddington.

Technically, Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), the sheriff of Eddington, New Mexico, has not actually been diagnosed, at least not to his face. Over the course of the movie’s second half, we see him accumulate symptoms,

Ari Aster as superhero director? Not in this lifetime. The auteur recently revealed during an appearance on the “Mixed Signals” podcast from Semafor Media (which you can see i

Aster sat down with The A.V. Club after a screening of Eddington at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre to talk about the terrifying future we’re all barreling towards. Eddington and Beau Is Afraid both seem like films where you woke up in a cold sweat and needed to write down what your brain had conjured up.

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.

Morbino :( Despite being a Marvel critic, there was a rumor that Midsommar director Ari Aster was approached to direct a superhero flick, but that rumor didn’t hold much weight until right now. In an interview with Semafor,

Ari Aster isn't necessarily anti-superhero movie, but there's a reason the Hereditary and Midsommar director passed on helming this notorious Marvel flick.