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These Film Programmers are Using Livestream Websites to Make Niche Works Accessible
“Oscar noms got you down? Good thing we don’t care about that shit over here,” reads a tweet by Annie Rose Malamet, self-proclaimed...
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Cyrus Cohen
- Feb 5
- 2 min
The Biggest Trend of Sundance 2022? Unintentionally Trans Narratives
After certain film festivals, Sundance in particular, it's common for press and industry guests to try to condense all of the extremely...
Cameron Wolff
- Jun 29, 2021
- 5 min
Alternative Skins and Parallel Lives in the Films of Isabel Sandoval
“I’m drawn to women with secrets,” states Isabel Sandoval in her recent Criterion Channel interview, singling out a defining trait that...
Shayna Maci Warner
- May 6, 2021
- 9 min
Jenni Olson and Desire in the Gay Golden State
In Jenni Olson’s short film Blue Diary (1998), a scant five minutes is enough to tell a small queer tragedy. With a wry monotone, the...
Annie Rose Malamet
- Dec 30, 2020
- 10 min
'Hard Candy,' 'An American Crime,' & Gender Performance in Elliot Page's Early Filmography
In the mid-aughts, Elliot Page starred in two quietly-released crime dramas, David Slade’s Hard Candy (2005) and Tommy O’Haver’s An...
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Cyrus Cohen
- Dec 25, 2020
- 5 min
The Lengths We Go to for Love: On the Ending of ‘Promising Young Woman’ [Spoilers Ahead]
In defense of Promising Young Woman's controversial ending, Cyrus Cohen contemplates the catharsis of realistic representations of rape.
Jaylan Salah
- Dec 7, 2020
- 9 min
Homoeroticism in Yousry Nasrallah’s Cinema
In this essay, Jaylan Salah dissects in the queer subtext present throughout the filmography of one of Egypt's most celebrated auteurs.
Sarah Fonseca
- Nov 30, 2020
- 19 min
Is ‘This is Paris’ a Queer Femme Text?
I. “How many real voices do I have?”: Queer Femme Performativity II. “Me, Nancy Reagan, my Parents”: Queer Femme Familial Estrangement...
Kyle Turner
- May 7, 2020
- 6 min
Ryan Murphy's Hollywood Babylon
How Ryan Murphy's dreamy movieland tale, and interest in telling the stories of the marginalized, is nothing but an illusion.
Cyrus Cohen
- Apr 20, 2020
- 11 min
eXistenZ, Videodrome, and the Panic of Penetration
How David Cronenberg politicized the post-modern cyborg through sex.
Maya Williams
- Mar 18, 2020
- 3 min
Normalizing Queer Identities in Birds of Prey
The nuances of Renee Montoya in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).