Irene Marquette shares her obsessions with the world in this Tuesday-night variety show.
Tag: Starlet
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How Francois Ozon’s Young & Beautiful addresses the sexualization of adolescents
Considering the recent French drama in light of the trend of movies on the sexual exploitation of children
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Reconsidering Sean Baker’s Starlet, 18 months later
The recent wave of documentaries about the exploitation of young women has led me to reevaluate the California-set indie drama.
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Essential versus arbitrary mystery in contemporary art house cinema
Reflections on trends in contemporary art house movies, as observed in this year’s Chicago International Film Festival and Doc Films’ ongoing Hou Hsiao-Hsien retrospective
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James Ransone in Broken City: Barely onscreen and barely restrained
Notes on the hard-working character actor, who appears in the Mark Wahlberg detective movie Broken City
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The Village: revisiting a meaningful plot twist
Reconsidering The Village, M. Night Shyamalan’s maligned 2004 feature