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Ageing in Style
On The Shrouds & David Cronenberg's Late Style
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Anand Sudha
1
Magic Circles
On Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier and David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return
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Ethan Gibson
2
The Barest Trace of a Future
On Samuel Beckett's Quadrat 1+2
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david c. porter
Did Mishima Die Happy?
“Did he really think it through?” – Henry Miller, Reflections on the Death of Mishima
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Duncan Stuart
6
Mann and His Modes
On Man of the West (1958)
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Anand Sudha
The Eastern Frontier
Stillness, Gesture and the Future of Hong Kong in Johnnie To’s The Mission
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Avalyn Wu
Moral Twilight & Depraved Indifference
On Sweet Smell of Success
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Evan Grillon
A Hall of Mirrors Leading Nowhere
On Zone of Interest
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Fedor Tot
The Many Faces of Mary Pickford
"... we all remember that beautiful dress, but what’s so much more interesting is the mud that stained the fringes."
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Fran Kursztejn
The Hobbyhorse's Capsule Spotlights: Vol. 3
On Jane Schoenbrun, Fred Camper, Leighton Pierce & David Ayer
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Daniel Gorman
, 
david c. porter
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Esmé Holden
, and 
Aaron Casias
Imitation of Strife
On Todd Haynes' Self-Aware, Self-Cannibalizing May December
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Daniel Fraser
Lost in the World with Millennium Mambo
"Millennium Mambo is still as vivid and alive as it has ever been."
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Esmé Holden
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