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Announcing FM 16.1 (2025)
Film Matters here highlights the TOC of 16.1, edited by students at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, which marks our first issue of 2025, as well as the first issue supported by the University of Utah. In this issue, … Continue reading
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Pandora’s Box (1929). Reviewed by Corbin Bean
My first exposure to the term “Pandora’s Box” was from one of my favorite YouTubers, EmpLemon, as he went into detail on the ancient Greek Myth and its modern implications in a video essay. Pandora was the first woman created … Continue reading
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Film Still Friday!: In Front of Your Face (2021). By Soohwan Lee
In Front of Your Face (2021) is a Korean film directed by Hong Sang-soo. It is an independent film, directed, written, and produced by himself, with camera, editing, and music also by him. Additionally, the production company and distribution company … Continue reading
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Self-Discovery in Crossing Delancey (1988). Reviewed by Sophia Voyles
Most of us can agree that finding what makes us truly happy is a difficult task. Whether it is because we are scared of what people will think or because we have no idea what brings us joy, we spend … Continue reading
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Poetics of the Paranormal (2024). Reviewed by Sloan Salinas
Spirits. Apparitions. Phantoms. Ghosts. The spectral after-images of people who no longer walk the earth have gone by many names over the course of many years. The ways in which they’re described and portrayed, much like anything else, have evolved … Continue reading
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One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg (2024) by Herbie J. Pilato. Reviewed by Elizabeth Stengell
I hope there’s a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there’s one good scandal left in me yet. Dame Diana Rigg Thus begins the first line of One Tough Dame, a promising start to Herbie Pilato’s deep dive into the … Continue reading
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Film Matters Announces New Partnership with University of Utah
Film Matters announces a new partnership and a new base of operations. Effective August 2025, the journal is now housed within the Department of Film & Media Arts at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. There, all journal activities … Continue reading
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Cruelty Is Natural. All That Breathes (2022) reviewed by Ella Rowsey
A beautiful bird with a yellow beak cracks open its own egg and starts to eat. In the distance, the bustle and action of a riot starts on the streets. The narration sounds, “cruelty is natural.” It is a war … Continue reading
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Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Love, Loss, and Life in Little Women and The Farewell. By Alisha Tan, Georgia Tech
In 2019, art blurred the lines between joy and sorrow. Ocean Vuong published his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, wondering if “sadness and happiness [could] be combined” to simplify life’s spectrum of mirth and misery so “you didn’t have … Continue reading
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Tapping into a Legend: The Unseen Side of Ellie Powell Revealed in Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance. Reviewed by Abbie Reams
Throughout the writing, our challenge remained how to relentlessly search out and present to the world “Ellie Powell” behind the mask of “Eleanor Powell.” —Paula Broussard Having turned the final page of Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance, I can attest … Continue reading
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