In this week’s issue, Noah Berlatsky looks past all the heavy breathing and abstinence allegory to explore the buried class issues in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. I don’t guess the above headline would ever have made the print edition, but on the Internet no pun is too obscure.
- Restrepo
Also this week, we have a Critic’s Choice for the Afghanistan war documentary Restrepo, screening at Pipers Alley and Century 12/CineArts 6. Directed by Tim Hetherington (who was also on assignment for Nightline) and Sebastian Junger (who also reported his experiences in Vanity Fair and the nonfiction bestseller War), the movie chronicles the 15-month deployment of a platoon in the Korangal (or Korengal) Valley, nicknamed “the Valley of Death” and considered one of the most dangerous assignments in the world.