Will Di Novi is a writer and film programmer based in Toronto. He has written on arts and culture for publications like The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Salon and The New Republic.
The new documentary 12 O’Clock Boys is the latest example of Baltimore’s restless creative energy... a film that stands up to its inevitable comparisons with [David] Simon’s urban epic.
Here is the world according to Johnny, the bilious antihero of Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked. Johnny is a restless drifter on an odyssey through London’s nocturnal underbelly, his feverish ranting a…