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As gifted as Mel Brooks is at satirizing and parodying genre and trope, where his films perform most acutely is in the deconstruction of filmmaking itself. For Brooks, the screen is an easily permeable membrane, and characters and filmmakers pass through it regularly. Whether it's Hedy Lamarr (ahem,
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A few days ago, Netflix released a new film called Girl. I have my misgivings about the streaming video service, including the fact that Netflix deadnames me all the time, but that's not what this is about. This is about Girl. Belgium's submission to the Oscars
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Derek Jarman ought to be around to film the end of the world. In Edward II, in War Requiem, in Caravaggio, Jarman filmed very queer apocalypses, sensual destructions that rent the world as we understand it asunder. For Jarman, everything was a process of constant transformation and rebirth. Edward II
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Thoughts on criticism and the 'Megalopolis' trailer.
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Denver's preeminent queer film festival has come and gone.
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More adventures in conservative Christian cinema.
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Luca Guadagnino's latest film pulses with desire, almost tragically so.
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George Miller's latest film is excellent, but it opened to box-office disappointment.
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“I’ve already started underlining meaningful passages in her copy of Moby Dick, if you know what I mean.” —Heathers In The Whale, by director Darren Aronofsky and writer Samuel D. Hunter, Brendan Fraser stars as an English teacher, Charlie, trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter. The film takes
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Pay attention, class. What was the cause of the Second American Civil War? Subscribe now It’s clear that Alex Garland’s Civil War goes out of its way to avoid giving the audience details about what caused the eponymous conflict raging throughout the U.S. We’re given tantalizing
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I haven't seen The People's Joker, which recently showed at the Toronto International Film Festival, and for now, it might have to stay that way. The film has reportedly been pulled from TIFF following "rights issues", and as such, the future of The People&
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[Here's something I wrote in 2015; I've changed a lot as a writer and thinker, but I like this piece still. All images taken from the film in question.] Subscribe now There’s a trans character in the 1994 American comedy Naked Gun 33 1/3: