Film of the Week
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Rental Family: You Pay for a Hug and It’s the Realest Thing You Have
In Japan you pay by the hour for someone to pretend to be your dad, husband, or friend. Rental Family doesn't make this up—these agencies have operated legally for decades. Brendan Fraser plays…
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HAMNET: The Grief Shakespeare Never Wrote About
How long does it take to get over losing a child? Shakespeare wrote Hamlet four years after losing his son Hamnet. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, Eternals) responds with Hamnet, her adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s…
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The Raven
Self-Portrait of a Murderer is inspired by the film The Raven and addresses in a narrative game what the murderer might tell about his actions inspired by the stories of writer Edgar Allan…
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The Father
Alzheimer and seeks to find in the consolation of words a place to keep memories alive through those everyday things that weave us as people. Shared Birthday Tomorrow is your birthday. Your real…
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Real Women Have Curves
Eduardo Galeano offers us through his prose and stories mental images of real women—those who could have been, who are, and who walk toward where they want to be. Through his book Women,…
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The Edukators
I’ve always believed that being young is part of being rebellious, of questioning education, of being edukators and believing the world must change. Leaving the crystal bubble and knowing the life our parents…
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500 Days with Her
There exists a game of expectations versus reality. The same game many men play with women—idealizing them and projecting onto them many things they believe women should have or should do simply because…
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Fight Club – Resting in Disobedience
I don’t look up. I look down, ahead, at the book and the screen. It’s night. August. In the sky the immense moon emerges as if from a shell of clouds: an immense…
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The Butterfly Effect – Coming Back to You
I’ve thought about how confusing happiness seems, where every cause contains an effect we often cannot anticipate, and over which we fumble blindly searching for those uncertain glimpses of what appears to be…
