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Richard Nixon and the Ghosts of the American Dream

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|Finn Odum| I must admit to you that I know very little about the 1970s. I know that Richard Nixon “pledged to end the Vietnam War”, sending the poorest of America’s sons to die aimless deaths while massacring innocents. Black activists fought in memory of assassinated… Continue reading

To Love or Leave: The Paradoxical Feminism of Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion

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|Chris Polley| “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you,” Joseph Heller famously wrote in his 1961 wartime satire Catch-22. Taking place during World War II and reveling in the titular paradoxes inherent in the very concepts of warfare and military service… Continue reading

I Want All the Bisexuals To Know: If I Can Edit a Film Blog, You Can Too

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Karen, Miss New York, a Black Latina woman in a red evening gown, is shouting in front of the crowd. To her right, five women in dazzling evening gowns are watching her in awe.

|Finn Odum| Several weeks ago, in the monotonous gray cubes of the Mall of America® office tower, I dared to make a joke about my gender identity. This is how it went:
Finn, 24, strikingly gorgeous and wickedly funny email specialist: Now, I’m not like most women—in that I’m not one… Continue reading

A quick Note on Loving Couples

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Two women, one with dark hair and one with light blonde hair, stare lovingly at each other while they row a boat on open water.

|John Moret| Loving Couples begins with a squeaky-wheeled gurney moving across a tiled hospital floor. Formally, the opening is one that is both intriguing and well-known. If you’ve seen much Swedish cinema of the period, the black and white film stock accompanied by the camera… Continue reading

The Real Power of the Lioness on the Cheese Grater…

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A woman on the left stands upright with a script pressed to her chest. Another woman stands to her right, holding a cigarette. Below them is text that reads, "It's up to us womenfolk to do something".

|Veda Lawrence| Revisiting The Girls in a cultural moment dominated by Barbie movie discourse, I could not help but muse about the perils of improperly reappropriating anti-feminist source material to a feminist narrative. Where the problematic seed at the heart of Barbie is pretty… Continue reading

Head in the Clouds: La Vie Rêvée Wishes Dreams Would Become Reality

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A woman with multicolored face paint gazes off into the distance, flanked by red borders on both sides.

|Matthew Lambert| La Vie Rêvée (The Dream Life), a revolutionary 1972 Canadian feminist film directed by Mireille Dansereau, follows the everyday life of Isabelle (Liliane Lemaitre-Auger) and Virginie (Veronqiue Le Flaguais) in Quebec. The movie is highly… Continue reading