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“#Why Céline Dion is what we all need right now” Dion during her performance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Feb. 28, 2020 (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times/Redux Pictures) “You can say no, but do you mind if I turn on my Céline Dion playlist?” When I hear this, I am face-down, shirtless and instantly…
“#‘Nomadland’ is an Escape from the American Dream” The failing healthcare system, cost of education, and frequent instances of unemployment are just a few of the ugly threats to the American dream. While many envision a house on the corner with a white picket fence, others see the vanity and emptiness that come from the…
“#The Honest and Complex Portrayal of Immigration in ‘Lingua Franca’” Since the beginning of self-isolation, I have developed a nasty habit: watching the TLC reality show 90 Day Fiancé and its spinoff franchises. It was an empty void for my exhausted brain, a place to lay my head while barely paying attention for several hours. The…
“#When Harry Belafonte Hosted ‘The Tonight Show’ and Changed Television Forever” In television, “late night” is a time slot monopolized by white male comedians. It’s been that way since the format was invented and continues to be true today when the top late-night talk shows and their top earners all consist of straight, white, male…
“#How One Shot from ‘Host’ Encapsulates the Film’s Horror” Found footage horror is a subgenre that, through the first-person perspective, has been able to articulate our complex and ever-changing relationship with technology. With the Paranormal Activity franchise, surveillance cameras and static frames became a way to capture the supernatural. In JeruZalem, apocalyptic horrors are captured…
“#‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ and the Choreography of the Mind” Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things begins with a tour of the interior, a cruise through the mind. The camera drifts slowly across richly colored wallpapers, tracing grooves like telltale wrinkles in the brain, each intricate pattern somehow dissolving cleanly into the next….
“#Reliving the Toughest Episode of ‘The Sopranos’” This essay is part of our series Episodes, a bi-weekly column in which senior contributor Valerie Ettenhofer digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great. This entry looks at one of The Sopranos’ darkest chapters, “Employee of the Month.” For six seasons, David Chase’s The Sopranos…
“#‘Dazed and Confused’ and Richard Linklater’s Commitment to Nostalgia” Aerosmith. A car your dad bragged about owning in the ’70s. Dudes with long hair. Bell-bottom jeans. And pot. So much pot. That’s our introduction to Richard Linklater’s cult-classic reflection of Austin in the summer of ’76. The dreamy mix of lethargic, cinema verité-style interactions. The…
“#How TCM’s ‘Women Make Film’ Makes Up for Film Education’s Exclusivity” Mark Cousins‘ extensive fourteen-hour documentary Women Make Film receives the showcase it deserves courtesy of Turner Classic Movies starting the first week of September. As part of a four-month-long program, the documentary has been split into episodes focused on different aspects of filmmaking, and…
“#Newcomer Rosy McEwen Shines in ‘The Alienist: Angel of Darkness’” In this essay concerning the TNT series The Alienist, Emily Kubincanek explores the breakout performance by newcomer Rosy McEwen and touches on major spoilers for all of season two. The second installment of TNT’s The Alienist had a lot to live up to. It needed…