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CINEMA DOWNSTAIRS
owenfelton
Mar 12, 20249 min read
I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun's Viscerally Heart-wrenching and Unabashedly Trans Vision of Both the Safety and the Prison of Nostalgia
'I Saw the TV Glow' A24 It was maybe halfway through Jane Schoenbrun's staggeringly bold sophomore feature, I Saw the TV Glow, when I...
owenfelton
Mar 8, 202413 min read
America on the Small Screen: Television in Film from 1955-1987
Humans love to be told how to feel. Since the beginning of time, humans have always looked toward figures to stand above them all and...
owenfelton
Feb 26, 20246 min read
Hayao Miyazaki Clumsily Asks "How Do You Live?" In his Newest Film
The long-awaited return to the big screen from one of the most universally acclaimed animated filmmakers of all time, Hayao Miyazaki...
owenfelton
Feb 13, 202413 min read
Unfriended: Tragedy in Cyber Horror Films Through the Lens of Twin Peaks
Warning: This article contains discussions of suicide and sexual abuse, as well as spoilers for the films: Unfriended (2014), Twin Peaks:...
owenfelton
Feb 10, 20247 min read
Bergman Island: Mia Hansen-Løve's Metatextual Romance About the Pain of Creation
"You know writing is hard for me. It's torture. It's self-inflicted agony. It's blood from a stone." Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island is...
owenfelton
Feb 8, 202411 min read
The Oneiric Meets the Erotic in Jane Campion's Misunderstood 2003 Masterpiece, In the Cut
"I thought I was dreaming." Jane Campion's unfairly maligned work of genius, In the Cut, is a film interested in fragmentation-...
owenfelton
Feb 7, 20245 min read
Dìdi (弟弟): A Welcome Addition to the Coming of Age Film Canon from Sundance 2024
Easily the standout film from the U.S. Dramatic Competition category at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Dìdi (弟弟) marks...
owenfelton
Apr 22, 20228 min read
Inside the Video: The Heart of the World's Fair
Toward the end of Jane Schoenbrun’s unsettling coming-of-age film, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, there is a shot where the camera...
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