Is Gully Boy actually Bandra Boy?

/ Mili Sethia / Music
While it is a story about how an underprivileged young man from the world’s second-largest slum manages to become a hip hop star, the movie is not intended for underprivileged audiences.

Alfonso Cuarón and the Majesty of Place

/ Sonya Alexander / Reviews
Cuarón's films present place as both a setting and riff on the human condition

How to Watch “Get Out” Again

/ David Shih / Misc
Get Out could seem like a comedy, they argued, because Hollywood execs failed to see that systemic, intergenerational racism was itself a horror story.

Review: Beach Rats

Love Things

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Do people really understand that to have a show where people say, express, and show love is already enough?

Film Review: God’s Own Country

/ Paul Johnathan / Reviews
Resentful over the limitations imposed on him, Johnny numbs himself by binge-drinking nightly.

Merge Love With Knowledge

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Streisand is smarter than to simply give us the ending we want and crave.

Day Off

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The insane beauty and charm of Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller

Exhaustive and Relentless

Not Pretending

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Rewatched The Fury. No one understood angles like De Palma.

The Other Side of Mistrust

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
“I don’t trust anybody but you.” A line that has always resonated with me.

The Too Much and the Too Little

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Teaching Moonstruck today and relating it to the question of productive frustration in love. Why we need to be frustrated before we can love.

Wanted to Say Hi

Will and Representation

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The best part about making work is to talk to the work of others.

Hard, Warm

Latinos in Film and Television

Empath and Psychic

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The way heartbreak, time, fate, and second sight converge and play out in this scene from The Dead Zone, beginning @4:41 min.

Badii Asks

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Badii asks everyone a lot of questions—a major sign of life.

Their Eyes Are So Close

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The world is falling apart fast, making happiness something very complicated.

Any Faith in Men

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
Taking screenshots of time-montages in The Way We Were for TIME TELLS. The movie always makes me cry.

That Terrible Doorframe

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The realization of gaslighting is the secret/real horror of Rosemary’s Baby.

Green

Film Review: Fort Buchanan

/ Cassie da Costa / Reviews
Fort Buchanan (Les Films du Bal) US Release: 2 February 2016 MPAA Rating: Not Rated Running […]

Not Fucking Narcissistic Melancholics

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
In Thief, Okla tells Frank: “Lie to no one.” Frank, a master thief, is asking Okla, a master thief, about love.

Forget the Other

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
On my last night in Germany, a young woman who came to my opening, was dancing on the dance floor at the bar we all went to after.

Film Review: Carol

/ Brandon Taylor / Reviews
Carol (The Weinstein Company) US Release: 20 November 2015 MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: […]

Film Review: Do I Sound Gay?

/ Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore / Reviews
Do I Sound Gay? (Sundance Selects) US Release: 10 July 2015 MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) […]