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La La Land’s Nostalgia

“It follows a struggle we have all faced: if you love the past, how do you approach the future?”

by Jessica Nyquist on March 12, 2017March 11, 2017

Arrived

On our post election world, and an alien invasion

by Elliott Eglash on December 11, 2016February 18, 2017

With Our Thoughts We Make the World

Watching Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold while reading the Dhammapada.

by Peter Schmidt on December 11, 2016

Lo and Lana

Re-constructing Lolita with Lana Del Rey

by Gloria Umutoni on December 3, 2016

The Bourne Escalation

Hollywood retconning just got personal.

by Harrison Blackman on October 24, 2016November 13, 2016

In Defense of Nicolas Cage

Why the much-maligned actor might just be a genius.

by Carson Welch on April 24, 2016April 24, 2016

Bone Tomahawk

In a filmmaking era when movies are increasingly designed, focus-tested, and audience-approved to please, “Bone Tomahawk” is strangely refreshing for refusing us our simple pleasures.

by Elliott Eglash on February 14, 2016February 14, 2016

Magic, Story, Lesson

Maybe this is why the movie is so hard to watch—you continually find yourself feeling as if you’re in a dentist’s chair, slightly reclined, every muscle tensed, breath held …

by Carson Welch on February 14, 2016February 14, 2016

On Screens & Esteem

One day this summer, sitting in a blank white apartment that was not mine, I felt a strange weariness. This apartment was full of more books than I will probably ever read and I had fellowships to apply to and emails to write and the whole Internet in front of me and all of New York City clamoring outside.

by Emily Lever on October 18, 2014November 9, 2014

Wes Anderson’s Oozing Nostalgia

There is always an interesting tone to the buzz around the release of a new Wes Anderson film. People wonder if the new film will stick closely to Anderson’s unique style in order to satisfy his cult following or if it will lean more toward the mainstream in an effort to garner more fans and more box office success. These are valid questions and concerns.

by Tom Markham on April 6, 2014April 6, 2014

Philomena as Documentary

Every year I try to watch the films nominated for the Best Picture award at the Oscars. Last week, I saw one of these, Philomena, starring Judy Dench and Steve Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears. The film is about Philomena Lee (Dench), an old Irish woman who is searching for the son that the Catholic Church forced her to give into adoption fifty years prior.

by Guy Johnston on February 15, 2014February 15, 2014

12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is tense and unflinching. Its relentless intensity and graphic brutality has been the defining feature in the media, but it is also an essential part of the film and the primary reason it could become the most important portrait of American slavery yet on camera.

by Alex Costin on November 14, 2013November 16, 2013


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