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Paths to Gory

By Michael ThomsenJune 16, 2015
Human Centipede 3 is interpretive chum as catharsis
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Nostalgia for the Future

By Nadia AwadMarch 22, 2015
Images of Palestine circulate globally as long as they don’t picture return
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The Real Image

By Esmé Weijun WangFebruary 19, 2015
For someone with schizoaffective disorder, blockbuster films can be far too realistic
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Beyond MLK

By Lorenzo RaymondJanuary 20, 2015
Selma depicts Martin Luther King as a hard-headed radical at odds with LBJ by 1964, but his radicalism only came later, after Ella Baker, the SNCC and the movement pulled him forward.
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The End of the World as We Know It

By Vicky OsterweilJuly 23, 2014
Ancient Apocalypse films use the past to project a reactionary present into the future
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Hopper on Art, Commerce, Death & Legacy

By TNIMay 30, 2010
Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, (1971) Anticipating the premier of Hopper's follow-up to Easy Rider, The Last Movie (1971), James Stevenson profiled the young director in…
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