7 years ago
All posts by Kyle Turner
You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Noah Baumbach’s Trilogy of Disappointment
Gracing the cover of the most recent issue of Film Comment are Greta Gerwig and Lola Kirke, staring into one another’s eyes, just under the headline, “Mistress America: I’ll Be Your Mirror.” The photograph, taken from a scene in which the trajectory of both ch...
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I Love You, Man: A Discussion on LGBT Films
Kyle: Noah, I unfortunately neglected to read your piece, “Three’s Company: A Trio of Modern LGBT-Themed Comedies”, when it was initially posted, but I was immediately intrigued when I skimmed it that day. Your choices -- I Love You, Man, Talladega Nights: The...
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“Mala Mala”
We live in an interesting time for transgender visibility. Laverne Cox’s stint on the Netflix series "Orange is the New Black" has allowed her to catapult into an arena where she can call attention to trans rights and the oppression trans people face, particul...
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“The Film Critic”
When Shia LaBeouf’s plagiarized short film Howard Cantour.com was released, I remember being a little disgusted. Its portrayal of what amounted to a petty, heartbroken, ax-wielding critic for whom junkets existed as a roundtable for silly gossips and inconsequ...
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“Tangerines”
Zaza Urushadze’s Tangerines opens in a tiny village in Eastern Europe—Abkhazia, Georgia to be exact—as a frail, old Estonian man named Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) meticulously constructs crates one slab of wood at a time. It's the early 1990s and there is a war in the...
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So Long, Farewell: The Balcony is Closing
As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. After many a list, (hypothetical) funeral movie marathon, several galleries, a few obituaries, some group posts, deathly defended films, films we wanted to live in, and other lovely pieces, The Balcony w...
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Whole Wide World: Living in a Film
Charlie Kaufman once said, “I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night…” Who else but someone as imaginative as Kaufman to say this, the creator of such seemingly real and tangible worlds like the ones in Being John Malkovich and Synecdoc...
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Opening Acts 3/18/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
Crossing borders at True/False 2015 by Scott Tobias. Tobias examines a t...
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The Savage Cinematic Beauty of Alexander McQueen
Striking compositions. Immaculate execution. Unapologetic provocations. It may sound like the work of a cinematic enfant terrible like Lars von Trier or Harmony Korine, but from the iconic bumsters to the horn adorned jackets to the infamous 12 inch scaled hee...
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“It Follows”
Certainly on a technical level, David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows stands out as one of the stronger horror offerings of recent years. As its title suggests, Mitchell’s film is about the dread of knowing something horrendous will happen, that Sword of Damocles...
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