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Like Me
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Like Me

by Rita Zhang on Mar 12, 2018 • No Comments
It’s quite easy to condemn teenagers when they publish a series of transgressive videos on Youtube just to get clicks. But sometimes, video clips go viral without an attention-seeking motive. The 2017 film Like Me juggles the relationship between this un-beseeching fame and its spiraling negative effects. It also entertains...
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Person to Person
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Person to Person

by Addie Glickstein on Sep 27, 2017 • No Comments
By tracking the disparate storylines of New Yorkers across three generations, Defa allows several distinct time periods to exist simultaneously, at once concurrent and continuous.
Interview: Alex Ross Perry
Interviews

Interview: Alex Ross Perry

by Addie Glickstein on Mar 20, 2017 • No Comments
Contributor Addie Glickstein sits down with Alex Ross Perry to discuss his beginnings, movie-watching, and New York City.
Double Exposure Contributor's Top Ten of 2016
Features / Lists

Double Exposure Contributor’s Top Ten of 2016

by Double Exposure on Mar 7, 2017 • No Comments
As is traditional, the staff of Double Exposure collected and ranked the Top Ten lists of our contributors' favorite films released in the US from the past year. As is also traditional, we got our acts together just in time to release it before Spring Break.
The Salesman
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The Salesman

by Michael Thurston on Feb 2, 2017 • No Comments
Asghar Farhadi again writes, directs, and produces his latest film, one that offers a powerful reflection on how doing the right thing doesn't always line up with what is expected of you.
Elle
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Elle

by Etan Weisfogel on Dec 4, 2016 • No Comments
Michelle was a mother, a daughter, a lover before, and she remains one after, even as her assault begins to affect her behavior in unexpected ways.
American Honey
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American Honey

by Darcy Cagen on Dec 2, 2016 • No Comments
As we travel across the country with people who were recently strangers, the soundtrack offers a rhythm of self-discovery in Arnold's vision of an alternate America.
Video Essay: The River
Videos

Video Essay: The River

by Alex Robertson on Nov 21, 2016 • No Comments
Alex Robertson takes us into Tsai Ming-liang's 1997 film The River in this new video essay.
A Short Film About Killing
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A Short Film About Killing

by Liz Sobolik on Nov 19, 2016 • No Comments
With a detailed, stylistic analysis of a straightforward case study, Kieślowski demands that murder and execution be deemed synonymous.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
DVD / Reviews

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

by Michael Thurston on Oct 30, 2016 • No Comments
Altman isn't just trying to subvert the conventions of the genre, but is rather constantly calling to mind the tensions between the Western genre's expectations and his characters' inabilities to meet them.
LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS
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LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS

by Bella Carriker on Oct 26, 2016 • No Comments
The care put into each frame denies the viewer the usual accoutrements of passive viewing, down to the very physicality of the experience.
Black Sheep: All These Women
Features

Black Sheep: All These Women

by Adam Hadar on Oct 23, 2016 • No Comments
Structurally one can readily notice that Bergman was trying to participate in the touch-and-go slapstick style of comedy he had watched as a child--yet this homage all too often registers as an attempt to gratify the director himself, and not its audience.
The Holy Night
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The Holy Night

by Darcy Cagen on Oct 7, 2016 • No Comments
Notari alludes to an idealized Italy, one without women in metaphorical chains, where torment isn’t romanticized, and where members of the lower class are seen as more than just creatures.

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