All the Beauty and the Bloodshed starts with the death of photographer Nan Goldin’s beloved older sister, Barbara, whose suicide sent shockwaves through Goldin’s family, life, and art. While it might not always be clear how these things tie back to this event, Goldin tells us through voiceover how they all relate. Part autobiography and… Read more »
Okay, I’ll be honest, Decision to Leave might be one of the hardest films I’ve had to define. Just when I think it’s a buddy comedy, it turns on its head and becomes more of a neo-noir (but more in terms of story and characterization than mise-en-scene), and then right when it’s settling into that,… Read more »
Yaya (Charlbi Dean Kriek) and Carl (Harris Dickinson) fight and snap at each other throughout their introduction to us in Triangle of Sadness. Their conversation revolves around paying the bill at a fancy dinner; other topics such as power dynamics in their relationship and gendered expectations in relationships are broached as the conversation expands. They… Read more »
We are the weirdos, mister. This sentence has been etched into enamel pins and posted thousands of times as a GIF on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. For some, the line is just an iconic saying from some mid-1990s film, but for so many it’s one of the lines that cements their love and adoration for… Read more »
Last year, Yi-Chen Chiang was selected as the recipient of the Jon Vickers Scoring Award and will be showcasing her original score for the Jean Epstein film Cœur Fidèle at the IU Cinema on November 5th. She is a recent graduate of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and currently works in Los Angeles as an… Read more »
Before viewing Halina Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, I purposefully tried to read as little as possible about the film so I could watch it with no spoilers as horror reviews often give a few away. In the broader spectrum of horror, I wasn’t sure where the movie would land; some early indications indicated more comedic… Read more »