Cemetery of Splendor as New Queer Surrealism Patrick Costley Jen’s (Jenjira Pongpas Widner, right) love for an afflicted soldier leads to new understandings of gender and sexuality through their surreal relationship with a spiritual medium. When the surrealist movement began … Read more
Suspense and the Supernatural in Personal Shopper and Let the Right One In Hateya Foxx Maureen (Kristen Stewart) obscured from our view in Personal Shopper (2016). Categorized as an arthouse thriller, Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper (2016) details the life of Maureen (Kristen … Read more
Fascism, the Phallus, and the Grotesque in Dr. Strangelove Claude Wilson Riding a nuclear bomb, Major Kong (Slim Pickens) launches global annihilation. Throughout the films of Stanley Kubrick, the intertwining of erotic sexual desire and self-destructive violent impulses is … Read more
A Thousand-Year Enigma: Adapting The Tale of Genji Carissa Roets The Tale of Genji (2011) is the latest film adaptation of a story that has been retold since the 11th century. Written in the 11th century, The Tale of Genji … Read more
Minds Full of Scorpions, Witches in the Wings: Probing the Liminal States and Marginal Spaces of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood and Welles’ Macbeth Timothy Dement The witch hut figures as an uncanny, hallucinatory space in Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of … Read more
Excerpted from the author’s 2015 undergraduate honor’s thesis The Unfixed Present of Memories of Underdevelopment Miguel Penabella Eslinda Núñez and Sergio Corrieri in “Memories of Underdevelopment,” directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Nothing endures. – Sergio Mendoyo, Memories of Underdevelopment Based … Read more
Agnès Varda: The Gleaner of All Things Macy Meyer Varda carrying a bushel of wheat, conveying that she, too, is a gleaner. In The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, 2000), Agnès Varda creates an intimate portrait of … Read more
