EDITORIAL HUB FOR CINEPHILES
Caroline Madden
The Queer Subtext of New Hollywood Era Buddy Movies
The buddy movie is one of the most enduring genres in American cinema, but it was particularly popular around the 1970s. In the midst of …
How Clint Mansell Scored “Requiem for a Dream”
Composer Clint Mansell has collaborated with director Darren Aronofsky on all of his feature films (except mother! which has no music) but it is his …
How “Teknolust” Disrupts the Male Gaze
In Lynn Hershman Leeson’s quirky Teknolust (watch now on Fandor), nebbish geneticist-programmer Dr. Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) creates three robotic clones from her DNA: The …
How Xavier Dolan Builds Worlds with Music
Xavier Dolan is one of cinema’s most electrifying young auteurs and his six feature movies are defined by their captivating use of soundtrack. He believes …
The Humanity of Divinity
Bombastic Old Hollywood epics such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, and King of Kings canonized Biblical characters as superheroic icons who could do no wrong. …
Isolation in the Internet Age
In the opening scene of director Robert Mockler’s 2017 film, Like Me—a neon candy-coated phantasmagoria of millennial loneliness inspired by Taxi Driver—viewers observe a bemused …
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