Category:Drama and Film
Black Lives Matter: What Would It Cost Us to Weep with Those Who Weep?
Ricky Staub & Aaron St. Jean
What would it cost us to weep with those who weep?
Amidst a pandemic sweeping the world we are being flooded by images of fellow human beings crying out in the streets. Pleading. Breaking. Screaming. And I’m watching my personal…
The First Assistant Director: Communicator-in-Chief on a Movie Set
Hristo Dimitrov
A movie set can feel very chaotic and intimidating. At the same time, the shooting process can sometimes be slow and repetitive. It is definitely not as glamorous as people would think. Each work day is very different from the…
A New Lens on Old Film: A Twenty-Something’s Angle on Art House Cinema
Isabella Komodromos
We “Create art out of a great compassion and need to help” [Ingmar Bergman, Persona].
A film has the opportunity to be a visual poem, with shots cut and placed so carefully that a sequence of vision and sound…
GUADAGNINO – CINÉASTE DE AUTRE TEMPS, or the death of the auteur and rebirth of the artisan
Sean Brennan
Though Luca Guadagnino has of late become one of the cinema’s premier aesthetes, his demeanor when speaking about his work resembles a producer rather than a director of his renown. In interviews, he is just as inclined to spend ample…
Contemporary Television Series and Literature: An Intense, Transformative Embrace
Anna De Biasio
The “third golden age,” the “high art era” of TV, or, simply, the age of “art television.” These are some of the definitions that recur in the debate about the boom in quality of US television dramas, which, since the…
What Big Teeth You Have
Raven Baksh
Inside a maximum-security prison, DR. CRISTOFF LAKE walks down a cream-colored corridor. In his right hand, he carries his coffee thermos, and in his left hand he holds a few thin manila folders. He is very well put together; his …
Stuck Between Stations: Reflections on The Eclipse & In Bruges
Sean Brennan
In Jean Cocteau’s 1950 masterpiece, Orpheé, Heurtebise (François Périer) leads Orpheus (Jean Marais) into the Underworld to save Eurydice (Marie Déa), Orpheus’ wife. To do so, Heurtebise instructs Orpheus to put on a pair of gloves so that he…
Boston
Zev Burrows
When a recent college graduate gets caught up with an older woman, he starts to question his own relationship with a younger girl and his own life. A story of love, lust, and the movies while moving along to the…