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Film Still Friday! | A Shift in Perspective Brought by a Single Twisted Premise: Ari Aster’s Short Film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons. By Soohwan Lee
The name Ari Aster is no longer unfamiliar to horror fans. With his feature debut, Hereditary (2018), followed by Midsommar (2019) and Beau Is Afraid (2023), he gained recognition for exploring the themes of familyties and the lurking anxieties of … Continue reading
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Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott (2023). Reviewed by Camryn Bryant
The world has never known what to do with Urusla Parrott, except for writer Marsha Gordon. In Gordon’s book, titled Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott, she gives readers a view of Ursula Parrott’s … Continue reading
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CFP 18.1 (Open Theme)
Film Matters announces open call for papers from current undergraduates, authors who have been invited to revise and resubmit previous submissions (including authors who did not make it past our prescreening for a previous call), and recently graduated undergraduates for consideration in … Continue reading
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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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