Although Asami is the villainess of ‘Audition’ by all conventional standards, her character’s past — and the previous actions of protagonist Aoyama — blur the lines between victim and perpetrator for both characters.…
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Richard C. Sarafian’s magnificent, exhilarating American odyssey captures this country’s confounding paradoxes like nothing else.…
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Michael Mann’s early works in the 1980s signify his most impressive filmmaking feats and perfectly exemplify an exciting era of provocative neo-noir thrillers.…
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The iconic music film foreshadowed our current discussions about how teenage girls engage with pop music… and why it matters.…
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How the casting choice of Dev Patel as Sir Gaiwan inherently alters the film's trajectory and gives it new meaning.…
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Being a young girl with a support system that refuses to let you succumb to society's expectations of beauty and behavior makes all the difference.…
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In the years since his death, Marker’s expanded non-presence has seemed to further complicate appreciations of his idiosyncratic memoirs.…
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As Lucrecia Martel sets the stage for her film, it isn’t long before we start to see one of the themes seep from the characterizations of the family. Martel doesn’t focus solely on internalized racism, but she does shine a light on…
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'Smooth Talk' is a film that daringly refuses to allow its audience easy answers, sidestepping simple conclusions and reassurances of a bright future.…
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Kelly Reichardt utilizes Nature to explore the organics of friendship and platonic intimacy as natural components of life with one another.…
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