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Stephen N. Borunda, Author of FM 9.2 (2018) Article “Political Revelations in Detail: The Close-up in Patricio Guzmán’s The Battle of Chile”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Stephen N. Borunda: I have been working on this piece for the past year or so. The essay synthesizes my studies of Chilean cinema with … Continue reading
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Hereditary (2018). Reviewed by Benjamin Bergstrom
Hereditary (2018) is one of the only films to ever leave me feeling truly horrible, but in a good way. No film has had such a profound psychological effect on my nightmares as Hereditary. It is a truly tense, gripping, … Continue reading
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Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Reviewed by Kaia MacLeod
Having worked primarily on music- and danced-based films previously, director Jon M. Chu brings a distinct visual style to Crazy Rich Asians (2018), making the experience of watching the film both unique and memorable.
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The Palm Beach Story (1942). Reviewed by Film Matters Spring 2019 Editorial Board
The Palm Beach Story (1942) Criterion Blu-ray Review from Liza Palmer Contributors: Wyatt J. Bixby, Matthew Cook, Julia DeNigris, R. W. Freeman, Khai Hammett, Olivia Outlaw, Bonner W. Poston, Madison Rae Reitz, Debra Riddle, Selena Schmidtke, Makenzie N. Smith, and … Continue reading
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Kalo Pothi (2015). Reviewed by Dikshya Koirala
Introduction The movie Kalo Pothi [English: Black Hen] is a Nepali movie directed by Min Bahadur Bham. This movie is set around the northwestern part of Nepal and is the first Nepali movie to be screened at the Venice Film … Continue reading
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Unsatisfied and Unhappy. My Film Festival by Miranda Sprouse
The harsh truth of reality is that not every story has a satisfying conclusion. Life does not always work out the way that we want. This is reflected not only in life, but also in cinema. The theme of an … Continue reading
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Announcing the Results of the 2018 Film Matters Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship
Film Matters is pleased to announce the winner of the fourth annual Masoud Yazdani Award, Nicole Veneto, for her FM 8.3 (2017) article, “’That lightsaber. It belongs to me.’: Patriarchal Anxiety and the Fragility of White Men’s Masculinity in The Force Awakens.” Nicole is … Continue reading
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The Astronaut Helmet in Wonder. By Miranda Sprouse
In the movie Wonder (2017), directed by Stephen Chbosky, August “Auggie” Pullman (played by Jacob Tremblay) suffers from a facial deformity. As he braces himself for his first year in public school, he must deal with bullies, standing out, and … Continue reading
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It Is All an Illusion: Perfect Blue on Social Media and Celebrity Culture. By Jasper Chen
This video essay analyzes the similarities between modern-day self-imaging via social media and celebrity culture within the framework of Satoshi Kon’s 1997 masterpiece Perfect Blue. In vacillating between reality and hallucinatory fantasy, the protagonist Mima becomes unable to distinguish between … Continue reading
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Visual Motifs of Fate in Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds. By Olivia Outlaw
The film Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958) is chock-full of visual motifs that display the movie’s main theme of fate. The film follows Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), a young man who is part of the Polish resistance in post-WWII Poland, … Continue reading
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