by Dahlia Schweitzer | Jan 9, 2023 | Journal
Warning: SPOILERS. Anya Taylor-Joy as Margot and Nicholas Hoult as Tyler in The Menu (Mark Mylod, 2022). “In her absolutely splendid novel Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson has a character ask whether a given book counts as eastern literature....
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Dec 22, 2022 | Journal
“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”—Edgar Allan Poe WARNING: Graphic photos and descriptions within. Seventy-six years ago, almost to the day, a passerby discovered the body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short in a...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Dec 4, 2022 | Journal
Warning: SPOILERS. Olivia Wilde as Bunny and Chris Pine as Frank in Don’t Worry Darling. I just watched Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde’s recent film, and much to my surprise, I loved it. Like many others out there, I was guilty of assuming that the film...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Nov 21, 2022 | Journal
When I google reviews of Tár, the first one that comes up proclaims, in all caps, “TAR is a MASTERPIECE.” Subsequent reviews are as glowing if not as effusive. Each one makes me wonder if I saw a different movie. Directed by Todd Field, who supposedly wrote the film...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Aug 19, 2022 | Journal
Yesterday, my friend Dr. Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, tweeted that sometimes she wonders about “the vast, silent, unknown would-be networks of vulnerable students and scholars in academia who (a) have a harasser in common but who (b) don’t know that because harassers tend...
by Dahlia Schweitzer | Jan 12, 2022 | Journal
Inspired by the sudden influx of queer films, characters, and directors in 1992, film scholar and general badass B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema.” From Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct to Derek Jarman’s Edward II, from Tom...
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