Moving Picture: ‘Frances Ha’ and Me
An Essay by Kyle Turner
An Essay by Kyle Turner
“She’s created a dialogue, even a dialectic, of what kind of power identity has.”
An Essay by Kyle Turner
“‘Bug’ closes in on you in a curiously suffocating way. It’s disorienting in the best way possible.”
“The horror reads as a treatise against a dominant culture that upholds rather old-fashioned ideas of gender…”
“Babbit recognizes that the characters in question have a difficult choice to make: to subscribe to a dominant culture and survive or to ‘be themselves’ and ostensibly be shunned.”
“Critics have labeled ‘Heartbeats’ as derivative and pretentious, flamboyant and bratty, but it’s exactly the kind of film where such criticism means that it’s doing its job.”
“The complexities of ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ are worthy of their own analysis, but the film’s simplicities and stark honesty about emotion are its strengths.”