Broadly, Tsai Ming-liang’s 2001 film What Time Is It There? is about the manipulation of time: keeping time, stealing time, losing time, and what it means to e...
Marielle Heller’s 2018 film, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, chronicles a short time in the life of best-selling literary biographer, Lee Israel, as she adopts and em...
In the second semester of my Master’s program, I greeted one of my professors in tears. The only out queer professor in the department, I told him, “I want to f...
At this point, no doubt, you have seen or at least heard about Greta Gerwig’s delightful directorial debut, Lady Bird (2017). Like most coming-of-age stories, L...
My favourite aspect of animation is its ability to transform bodies into all shapes, sizes, colours, and textures. Because animation is completely unbounded fro...
Someone once told me that Mustang (2015) is like the Turkish version of Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides (1999), but I think that comparison does Mustang a g...
Personally, my favourite part of Boaz Yakin’s 2003 film Uptown Girls is that Billy Joel never plays. I’m joking, really. This film was tremendously important to...
From my very first viewing of Wong Kar-wai’s masterful In the Mood for Love (2000) in the second week of my Introduction to Cinema Studies class in 2013, it has...
20th Century Women, director Mike Mills’s follow up and counterpart to his 2010 film Beginners, is the story of three women, two men, and their non-normative fa...
Coming out of the ‘Greek Weird Wave’, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s 2010 film Attenberg is a tale of beginnings, ends, firsts, and lasts.
The film follows the sto...
