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“The heft of the film lies simultaneously in its visual style & in Gere’s stylized performance as a man who lives not to inhabit his own emotions, but to reflect back the desires of others. He walks through hallways like a prowling ghost, skin whatever color the lights are.”
"First Reformed and The Good Lord Bird can best be linked by a common, disheartening truth: the more things change, the more they stay the same." https://t.co/5ALdlBUOKj
“Ultimately, THE SWIMMER may simply be the portrait of a Man, and the story of the desperately small man who hides within that portrait, and the devastation wrought by his attempts to inhabit the myths of manhood needed to sustain that strange simulacra.” https://t.co/P4LqAxe0JM
To celebrate our EROTIC THRILLERS issue, every Friday night of this hot and sweaty July we’ll be suggesting an erotic thriller double feature—one mainstream, one lesser-known.
Tonight’s double:
SEA OF LOVE (1989) / STRIPPED TO KILL (1987)
Today on the site: our Erotic Thrillers issue kicks off with @ArenBergstrom on the "evolutionary eroticism" of David Cronenberg's Crash (plus new art from @vmenendezb!) https://t.co/Tv7LVe5g2W
With the film now on @criterionchannl, read @aHeartOfGould on BODY DOUBLE: "A smirking, porn-pop uncanny valley of Hitchcockian anti-reality heat-warped by sexual obsession into an unhinged flood of Brian D's megatonic, metafilmic id."
🎨: @studiotstella
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Today on the site: our Best Laid Plans issue wraps up with @justbrizigs on Claudia Weill’s “Girlfriends” and what happens to best friendships when paths to adulthood diverge (with new art by @studiotstella) https://t.co/Tat69nnIpm
"The Empire Strikes Back is about doing the work after all passion for that work is gone, about the slow, hard attempts to see a long-term plan through with no hope of success in sight." -@dodgyboffin https://t.co/4nituvzVmw
"In principle, apocalypse might imply a clean, sudden ending, but in practice, it’s a drawn-out & uneven descent. I can think of few works of art that understand this better than THE LEFTOVERS." https://t.co/bllYLxiuTx