11 posts tagged ‘Culture / The Front Row’
“May December” Knows What It Thinks, and That’s a Problem
The New Yorker,
Presenting a battle between two narcissists, played by Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, Todd Haynes’s film misses dramas that don’t fit its schematic.
A Philosopher-Filmmaker’s Polyphonic Perspective on Trans Experience
In Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Biography,” Virginia Woolf’s protagonist is played by more than twenty trans and nonbinary actors.
“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchise
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?