Long Live the New Hostility: Stinking Heaven

Stinking HeavenDirected by Nathan SilverDecember 9-15 at Anthology Film Archives
A portrait of amateur rehab gone awry, the phenomenal Stinking Heaven sets down in early-90s Jersey, at a countercultural halfway house where the rate of attrition is just starting to spike. The film, by prolific writer-director Nathan Silver, is an analog immersion into the recent past (à la Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess) that’s all bad resolution and free-floating animus: Heaven was shot by