Let us thirst again, we beg. It’s one of the few things we have left.
PositionSenior Editor
JoinedMay 27, 2017
Articles60
Fran Hoepfner is a Senior Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room and has been contributing to the magazine since 2013. She recently completed her MFA in fiction at Rutgers in Newark, and launched Fran Magazine, in early 2022.
For as long as I can remember, my mom has referred to Pulp Fiction as the most violent film she had ever seen in her life, and I wanted to know why.
What makes Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Free Solo what they are is not death. It’s the spectatorship of death., watching those around a person come to terms with what we all know is out there.
Seeing movies is a gift, and I can’t wait to go back next year.
There's a deftness to Ocean's Eleven that feels magical—of all the material for adults that I consumed a little too early, this was the only one that secretly felt like it was for kids.
I saw Lady Macbeth in the dead weight of summer with two male friends. This was, as politely as I can say it, a mistake. I don’t think we had the language to talk about it afterwards.
On The Truman Show, Jake Paul, and the increasingly blurred lines between the performed and private self.
Good Time is an itch, a nagging. I want to let it go, but I, too, have been prone to spiral.
The first act of Atonement (2007) takes place in the summer of 1935 in Shropshire, England, and this is the kind of heat that’ll drive you insane.
Diana is a remarkable heroine, not just within the realm of comic book movie heroines, but for female protagonists in general.
This is perhaps the part of the essay where I admit, fully, that I love him. I love Bill Nighy.
