‘My Brilliant Friend’: Season One Review

Advertisements The tone for Lila Cerullo and Elena Greco’s lifelong friendship is set when they first play with dolls together in the courtyard of their apartment building. Lila, who is known to teachers, adults, and children alike for being impulsive and destructive…

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Room 237

Advertisements A movie, freed from the shackles of auteurism, has a life of its own. It exists as a text of its own, influencing the lives of others in ways the original author may not have intended, or even imagined. We would…

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‘Beau Travail’ Review

Despite being adapted from a 19th-century novella, Beau Travail is an incredibly cinematic work that explores questions of memory, identity, and sexuality, all through the language of the visual image.…

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Woodshock

Advertisements Immersed in the eternal, wondrous beauty of the northern California Redwoods, a fragile Theresa (Kirsten Dunst) drowns in the guilt associated with the emotional weight of helping her mother commit assisted suicide with poison-laced cannabis which she procured through her job…

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Red River

Advertisements Seventy years ago today, a motion picture was released immortalizing the drama and danger of the rancher. Howard Hawks directing with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift starring, this tale of betrayal, action, and lots and lots of cattle has since become…

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Jeremiah Johnson

Advertisements Ride due west as the sun sets; turn left at the Rocky Mountains . . . With this simple advice, Jeremiah Johnson sets forth on a brutal course toward life anew. Robert Redford is the titular hero recently returned from the…

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Support the Girls

Advertisements Think back to your first job, or really any job that didn’t represent your ideal career—retail, service industry, it doesn’t matter what—it was probably pretty shit, right? You clocked in, worked for a low-wage, for a company that viewed you as…

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We the Animals

A tender, luminously shot coming of age tale with a strong (and dysfunctional) family dynamic.…

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Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

Advertisements Are you familiar with “Bohemian Rhapsody” and how the song is massively epic, how it changes up numerous times but still maintains a clear focus? Well, that is Night Is Short, Walk On Girl. Earlier this week I got to experience…

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