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In Praise Of

The Unspoken Desire of Dečki

by Vuk Winrow

In a landmark piece of Slovenian cinema, Stanko Jost articulated the challenges and beauty of queer desire. 
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If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts at 40

by Emily Maskell

Donna Deitch’s 1986 lesbian romance is a fearless example of why it’s so important the queer community are able to tell their own stories.
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Reprise and the search for authorial integrity

by Baneet Sarai

With Sentimental Value winning universal acclaim, we visit Joachim Trier’s 2006 debut about two best friends attempting to become literary greats.
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RIP Frederick Wiseman – In remembrance of the American dean of documentary

by David Jenkins

Our homage to one of the great filmmakers of the modern age who leaves behind him a corpus of worked unmatched in the world of film and art. 
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The disturbing prescience of Mala Noche

by Tom Joudrey

Forty years ago, Gus Van Sant’s breakout film captured the terror and violence inflicted on immigrants in the United States. Lead actor Tim Streeter reflects on his experiences making this landmark of indie cinema.
Two men kneeling on wet sand examining a large sea turtle, with waves washing around them on a beach.
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Strangers in Paradise: The Radical Loneliness of Turtle Diary

by Thom Brogan

As John Irvin’s underseen turtle heist comedy turns 40, its charming depiction of aloneness as a liberating lifestyle choice continues to make quiet waves.
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A Different Kind of Holiday Affair: Carol at 10

by Desirae Embree

As Todd Haynes’s classic love story turns 10, Carol invites us to reimagine the holidays.
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Female friendship and rebellion: Nana at 20

by Roda Musa

Twenty years ago, two wildly different women with the same name got on a train to Tokyo and changed the lives of teen girls everywhere. 
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Rage and defiance in les banlieues – La Haine at 30

by Julie Hrischeva

As Mathieu Kassovitz’s cult thriller turns 30, its pertinence and influence continue to reverberate across our own uncertain times.
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What Night of the Comet Taught Me About the End of the World

by Ariana Martinez

Thom Eberhardt’s counter-culture classic from 1984 is a poem to doomed youth.
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Ed Wood Jr and the pain of pronouns

by Esmé Holden

Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification.
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The wild, wacky tale of Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit

by Ryan Gaur

Twenty years ago Aardman created a monster. A carrot-gobbling monster that baffled its American investors…

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