Madeline’s Madeline is an exercise in tension. It explores the interplays of tension and release in personal reality, which exude beyond the film, becoming, very much, a movie on anxieties. Watching it, I felt my own fingers tighten …
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Dismantling Detroit: Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
I’ll admit that I was at first dazzled by the strange combination of ethereal bangles and beads and the NeonEjaculate artistic flair of curb-stomping stubbornness that is the lead, Detroit (Tessa Thompson), in the film Sorry to Bother You…
The Seventh Art, a Song to Cinema
Seven-thirty in the evening, and lights / fade away, while curtains open in front / of me from center …
Onions
It had been two months since Lira had become aware of her skin. Like a keen cinematographer, she had become obsessed with the smallest of details…
movie
the credits fly up / with a last mcdonald’s meal, / a suitcase that you carried for me, and / two slim boarding passes with / two different endings…
Taking the RER B
My best friend missed her flight because she needed to see the Eiffel Tower. She simply would not have been to Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower. On the day, the train takes just a bit too long but when we emerge from the Bir-Hakeim metro station, finally, the tower emerges like Goliath pouncing upon our fantasies…
