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Broken Mirrors: Perfect Blue 20 Years Later
Mima Kirigoe (voiced by Junko Iwao) is a pop idol. She’s the lead singer for the J-Pop band CHAM, and she’s about to perform her last show, before leaving the music industry to try her hand at acting....
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It is difficult to know within the deepest pits of your body that you’re supposed to be a mother, but you cannot conceive. It’s living with a whirring dissonance whose volume depends on the...
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Top 50 of 2018
2018 was seemingly endless, and characterized by personal and global grief. It would be foolish to assert that this did not in some way effect the movies I sought out last year. When my cat passed away...
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Green and White: A High School Graduation, Lost Girlhood and Adolescent Stasis
On the day of my graduation they sorted us into two separate groups based on gender. This was something they always used to do, even if it felt archaic. It was our school’s own way of keeping things...
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Body Talk: Conversaions on Transgender Cinema with Caden Gardner: Part Eight
Body Talk is an ongoing series of transcribed conversations on Transgender Cinema as the two of us prepare to write a book on the subject. This installment of Body Talk is on the trap narrative in...
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Body Talk: Conversations on Transgender Cinema with Caden Gardner: Part Seven
Dante "Tex" GillBody Talk is an ongoing series of conversations about Transgender Cinema as we prepare to write our book "Corpses, Fools and Monsters: An Examination of Transgender Cinema:. This...
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4 films to get excited about at the Fantasia Film Festival
The latest incarnation of Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival is right around the corner. Running from July 12th to August 2nd the film Festival looks to bring some of the newest films of genre cinema...
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Body Talk:Conversations on Transgender Cinema with Caden Gardner: Part Six
Ginger Snaps (2000)Body Talk is an ongoing series of transcribed conversations on Transgender Cinema as we prepare to write a book on the subject. This part is on the horror subgenre of "body horror"....
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Northern Star: On Twin Peaks: Sheryl Lee, and Laura Palmer
[TW: Detailed account of sexual abuse] [Spoilers: Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and Twin Peaks: The Return]My angel does heroin,It could be called a home,Her father never read her bed time...
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Body Talk: Conversations on Transgender Cinema with Caden Gardner: Part Five
Body Talk is an ongoing series of transcribed conversations on Transgender Cinema as we prepare to write a book on the subject. This part is on Jennie Livingston's seminal documentary, Paris is...
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Body Talk: Conversations on Transgender Cinema with Caden Gardner: Part Four
Body Talk is an ongoing series of conversations between Caden Gardner and I about Transgender Cinema as we prepare to write a book on the subject. The fourth installment is on Jonathan Glazer's...
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Body Talk: Conversations on Transgender Cinema with Caden Gardner: Part Three
Body Talk is an ongoing series of conversations between Caden Gardner and I about Transgender Cinema as we prepare to write a book on the subject. This installment is on Kimberly Pierce's Oscar Winning...
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Body Talk: Conversations on Transgender Cinema with Caden Gardner: Part Two
Body Talk is an ongoing series of conversations between Caden Gardner and I about Transgender Cinema as we prepare to write a book on the subject. Part two is on the 1982 Robert Altman film, Come Back...
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Under the Skin's Transgender Allegory
Originally posted in 2014 at The Vulgar Cinema Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin is a vague science fiction picture loaded with images both abstract and very blunt. The content of those images twists...
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Body Talk: Conversations on Transgender Cinema with Caden Gardner
Body Talk is an ongoing series of conversations between Caden Gardner and I about Transgender Cinema as we prepare to write a book on the subject. The first of these discussions is on the classic...
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Our Heroes Don't Grow Up to Be Cowboys
On Clint Eastwood, his relationship with firearms, father/son relationships and masculinitySally Gerber (Laura Dern) describes Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) as a criminal's criminal. By that she means...
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Top 50 of 2017
If there is a theme in my favourite viewings from 2017 it is that I filled in many blind-spots or gaps in my personal viewing within the largely recognized canon of the greatest films ever made. How...
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Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike, 2017)
"What are you?""...a monster"In the opening moments of Takashi Miike's newest film, Blade of the Immortal, Manji (Takuya Kimura) slaughters one hundred men in an act of revenge for having just seen his...
View ArticleTwin Peaks: Episode 10: Harbinger
"The light is almost gone""Laura is the one""No Stars"Bad things are on the way. In the work of David Lynch Rebekah Del Rio is something of a harbinger. In Mulholland Drive the sheer elegance and grace...
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Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017)
Traditionally in comics Wonder Woman is an ambassador to the world of man to show humanity the Amazonian way & lead them to peace and prosperity. In an instance of meta commentary on the character...
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