Jem Cohen on Museum Hours

Filmmaker Jem Cohen’s latest film, Museum Hours, is an aria containing almost no music. This is remarkable, because in his long career Cohen has frequently collaborated with musicians from R.E.M. to Fugazi to Patti Smith (who executive produced Museum Hours) and his lead actress in the film is the cult Canadian singer Mary Margaret O’Hara. But this 106-minute portrait of life on the margins in wintertime Vienna i...