Tag: Film Review
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“I didn’t save mine”: A Review of The Darjeeling Limited (2007) Through a Saidist Lens
Manahil Masood considers Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited (2007) through the lens of Edward Said’s landmark text Orientalism, to argue that the film reinforces colonial narratives surrounding India.
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When Mothers Hire Mothers: Oblique Maternal Identities in The Help
Tate Taylor’s film The Help has been discredited for exaggerating historical tropes, but served as a window into the complex relationship between African American maids and their white employers in the American South. Harry Fry analyzes The Help to discuss the racial and employment dynamics impacted ideas of motherhood.
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Revisiting the Osage Oil Murders in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s 2023 film Killers of the Flower Moon sheds light on the Osage oil murders of the 1920s. Kat Jivkova traces David Grann’s account of the murders in order to critically evaluate the film.
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Killers of the Flower Moon – A Biopic of Tragedy
Martin Scorsese’s 2023 film, “Killers of the Flower Moon” explores the Osage oil murders which took place in Oklahoma in the early 20th century. Oscar Simmons outlines the brilliance of the films cinematography and its subsequent impact.
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Film Review – Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling: Tragedy and the Pursuit of Perfection
Olivia Wilde’s 2022 feature, “Don’t Worry Darling” blends the macabre and the glamorous against a background of 1950s America. Georgia Smith delves into Wilde’s world of seduction, tension, and Victory.
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The Portrayal of Female Desire and Lesbianism in Deepa Mehta’s Fire
Written by Kat Jivkova. Deepa Mehta’s deeply impactive 1996 film, ‘Fire’, is a portrayal of female desire as resistance to Hindu patriarchy. Kat Jivkova asks why, as something deeply embedded in Indian life and a not a mere Western import, this stirred much imagination, and ire, on its release.
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Being the Ricardos Review: Sorkin fails to dazzle in detached biopic of I Love Lucy Stardom
Written by Kat Jivkova. ‘I Love Lucy’ was the first big American sitcom, premiering in 1951. Though, the complex relationships behind the scenes, interlocking with the contradictions of the 1950s United States, is something Aaron Sorkin’s mishandled 2021 biopic is judged as being incapable of grasping.
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Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’: Confronting Satire and the Immutability of Youth Political Experience
Written by Georgia Smith. Wes Anderson’s 2021 film, ‘The French Dispatch’ satirises youth political culture in the 1960s through depicting the events surrounding the final edition of ‘The French Dispatch’ in a fictional newspaper. Georgia Smith reviews the film, asking how satire can tell an impactful and important story.
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