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      These Film Programmers are Using Livestream Websites to Make Niche Works Accessible
      Claire Davidson
      • Mar 17
      • 11 min

      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...
      The Biggest Trend of Sundance 2022? Unintentionally Trans Narratives
      Cyrus Cohen
      • Feb 6
      • 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...
      Alternative Skins and Parallel Lives in the Films of Isabel Sandoval
      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...
      Jenni Olson and Desire in the Gay Golden State
      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...
      'Hard Candy,' 'An American Crime,' & Gender Performance in Elliot Page's Early Filmography
      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...
      The Lengths We Go to for Love: On the Ending of ‘Promising Young Woman’ [Spoilers Ahead]
      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.
      Homoeroticism in Yousry Nasrallah’s Cinema
      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.
      Is ‘This is Paris’ a Queer Femme Text?
      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...
      Ryan Murphy's Hollywood Babylon
      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.
      eXistenZ, Videodrome, and the Panic of Penetration
      Cyrus Cohen
      • Apr 20, 2020
      • 11 min

      eXistenZ, Videodrome, and the Panic of Penetration

      How David Cronenberg politicized the post-modern cyborg through sex.
      Normalizing Queer Identities in Birds of Prey
      Maya Williams
      • Mar 19, 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).

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