In the first instalment of this Patreon exclusive column, we examine the duelling examinations of youth's liminality.…
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Ultimately their traumas are the things that either make or destroy them; their stories show the opposing ways that such similar trauma can function, how it can mold two distinctly different girls.…
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On first impression, the 1984 thriller Body Double may appear to be writer/director Brian De Palma’s most tongue-in-cheek attempt to do all the Hitchcocks in one. It’s all there: the vertigo from Vertigo, the windows from Rear Window, the schemes of Dial…
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Kiki's story of self-discovery evocatively expresses the process of a young artist confronting tradition and fears of rejection to make a bold statement of her own.…
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For Hayao Miyazaki, 'The Wind Rises' is his manifesto…
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A “meek librarian” becomes a dashing adventuress, subverting archetypes along the way.…
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Criterion by Blaise Radley You are now reading an exclusive piece from the Film Daze Digital Magazine, Issue 6: Adolescence. Enjoy! – The Film Daze Team Like it or not, in high school being cool really matters, and nowhere is that more evident…
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“LOVE NEVER DIES,” declares the tagline of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 film adaptation of the 1897 novel. While the tagline refers to the film’s romance between its titular character (a scene-chewing Gary Oldman) and Mina Murray (Winona Ryder at the…
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You are now reading an exclusive piece from the Film Daze Digital Magazine, Issue 1:Vampires. Enjoy! – The Film Daze Team True to their subjects’ own immortality, the vampire genre will outlive time. It’s why we’re so often drawn to vampires in cinema —…
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Radically experimental Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella creates a mesmerizingly metacinematic vampire story like no other.…
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