Claudette Barius/Netflix "Velvet Buzzsaw" on Netflix. Look up: Director Dan Gilroy spoke to “The Big Picture” podcast about balancing the various genres of “Velvet Buzzsaw” and his previous movie with Gyllenhaal, “Nightcrawler.” Trailer: Barbara Nitke/Netflix "Friends From College" on Netflix. Look up: Amanda Hess called this show a “pleasant surprise” in The New York Times and made an apt comparison …
CNN — Morf Vanderwalt, the acerbic art critic played by Jake Gyllenhaal in Netflix film “Velvet Buzzsaw,” is never short of a bon mot. He said during a phone interview that Dease’s character is “loosely based on the notion of an outsider artist like Henry Darger.” A section of "Realms of the Unreal" by Henry Darger, the American outsider artist …
